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One of the best ways to support the press is to purchase books. All titles below are crafted right here in the Pacific Northwest, by Blue Cactus Press and/or other small presses and entrepreneurs sparking interpersonal, social, and cultural change. Our authors, collaborators, and community members include Eight Twenty-Eight, Frontera, Gray Dog Press, KnownForSolutions, La Paloma Tacoma, Perez Consulting, Rebel Firm Books, The 3rd Thing, and Winter Texts, among others.

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Browse our books below, as well as some from like-minded presses and authors of the Pacific Northwest. Your purchase allows our collaborators — including authors, artists, designers, editors, marketers, and printers — to thrive.

Terrain

Poems by Gina Hietpas ISBN: 9781733037556 Pub Date: Sep. 10, 2020 In her debut poetry collection, Terrain, self-taught poet and educator Gina Hietpas offers readers a way to return to the land with care and dignity. Drawing from a deep well of personal observation, connection and participation with the natural world, Hietpas’ poems explore themes of allyship, care, and ultimately, healing.

$20.00

The Bedouin | There Are No False Alarms

Blue Cactus Press Chapbook Series 2020: The Bedouin by Yousef Allouzi There Are No False Alarms by Samuel Snoek-Brown These limited-edition chapbooks feature memoir essays by Yousef Allouzi and Samuel Snoek-Brown. The Bedouin is a highly personal account of Allouzi’s experience reconnecting with his cultural heritage in Jordan, and the racial profiling he faced upon his return to the U.S. In There Are No False Alarms, Snoek-Brown invites us to bear witness to his and his students’ experience in Winter 2018, when reports of gunfire at Highline College triggered a campus lockdown. Purchase these pocket-sized books individually or within a…

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You Are the Solution

Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit Within by Philip “Sharp Skills” Jacobs You Are the Solution is a call to action for empowerment, a guide for those no longer willing to be spectators in a society desperate for change. Whether you’re building a business, looking to improve your professional or social relationships, or interested in learning how to solve problems on a systemic level, You Are the Solution will equip you with the entrepreneurial mindset necessary to do so. From page one, readers learn to recognize and value their skill sets, harness inner power, execute like their life depends on it, and…

$20.00

What Us Is

Poems by Kellie Richardson ISBN: 9781733037549 Published: March 1, 2020 What Us Is offers readers a glimpse into the head space of one of Tacoma, Washington’s most respected poets, Kellie Richardson. In her debut poetry collection, Richardson turns herself inside out to let others know they’re not alone.

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Low Static Rage

A poetry collection by Michael Haeflinger ISBN: 9781733037501 Published: Sept. 27, 2019 Whether in the alley, in the woods or out the back door, the poems in Michael Haeflinger’s debut collection create a soundtrack to a world thrumming with unease. They inhabit spaces between stations on the radio dial and ask readers to lean-in and listen for it: the quiet rage building around us. Low Static Rage is a dazzling showcase of Haeflinger’s mastery of form, craft and style.

$20.00

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Terrain

The Bedouin | There Are No False Alarms

You Are the Solution

What Us Is

Low Static Rage