Steve Tyler 1942-2020 at Café Mundo, Newport, OR Vaughn Marlowe Wake 2018 05-09

            Sadly, both Steve and the Newport, Oregon eatery where this photo was taken, Café Mundo, are no longer with us.
The event was a wake for another Newport notable, Vaughn Marlowe.

Steve was an exceptional poet and is the author of A Hole in the Sun: Poems 1977-2014 (Luminare Press, 2014).

Luminare also posthumously published Steve's memoir, Cold Summers: Lost and Found in the Alaskan Wilderness (2021), which I've yet to read. Put a review on Amazon if you do.
Here's the blurb:
“…This adventure came at a time in my life when I had no place left to go. The large part of a surveyor’s work is to locate himself on the earth, and maybe that’s why I took the job.”
     For more than a dozen seasons, author Steve Tyler toiled as a land surveyor in the Alaskan wilderness, from rain-drenched Ketchikan to Kodiak Island, from the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea to Anaktuvuk Pass, gateway to the Arctic. Bear attack survival was standard training and in the remotest sites the crews entrusted their lives to bush pilots, some saner than others.
     Surrounded by men half his age, a misfit among misfits, Tyler carved out a space to reflect on all his life’s misadventures, recording moments of hilarity and horror, devastating sadness and jaw-dropping beauty.

This snap was not-particularly-skillfully taken with a tiny ObamaPhone about the size and constitution of a cheese slice. I kinduv like the soft, painterly effect of the poor resolution here, tho.


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