Books
Lynx House Press, 2024 - 180 pages
Skiing with Dostoyevsky: New & Selected Poems gathers lyrics whose worldliness is rooted in both travel and “the lexicon of the local,” in which “Winter is going to / prove whatever it has to prove / as I intend to spend what I provisioned / giving away all I have left to give.”
The book brings together pieces from David Axelrod’s previous nine collections along with thirty-two brilliant new poems, the whole a kind of symphonic effort to clarify the unity of consciousness, water, wind, and stone, all life, in fact, and the planet itself.
“At his best, the lives inhabiting the poems of David Axelrod are often those of people, earthy or urban, easily overlooked if not forgotten. Folks we might call “working class” as a euphemism for “down on their luck” or “simple.” But simple by whose measure, and whose idea of what constitutes a proper kind of luck? I love this proclivity in the poet’s reflections. Even better, in this collection of new and previously published poems, Axelrod absolutely is “at his best” by any measure I can think of.”
Years Beyond the River
Terrapin Books, 2021
Folly: Poems
Lost Horse Press, 2014
Troubled Intimacies: A Life in the Interior West (personal essays)
Oregon State University Press, 2004
The Eclipse I Call Father:
Essays on Absence
Oregon State University, 2019
What Next, Old Knife? Poems
Lost Horse Press, 2012
The Open Hand: Poems
Lost Horse Press, 2017
Departing by a Broken Gate: Poems
WordCraft, 2010
Sensational Nightingales: The Collected Poems of Walter Pavlich
Lynx House Press, 2017 (editor)
The Cartographer's Melancholy: Poems
Eastern Washington University Press, 2005 and 2018
OUT OF PRINT
The Chronicles of the Withering State, Ice River Press, 2004 (a poem-sequence)
The Kingdom at Hand, Ice River Press, 1993 (a long-poem)
Jerusalem of Grass, Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, 1992 (poems)