The Wolves of Mirr (NEW)

While roaming his beloved mountains, wolf biologist Levi Brunner comes across three women disporting in a pool. They invite him for a swim . . . and he wakes up alone on a beach, below an ancient Greek temple. Real or dream?

There’s no time to figure it out, as bad news hits: the slaughter of a wolf pack on a mountain slope, leading to rising hysteria in town about wolf attacks on humans.  Levi tries to face down the forces who want to shoot every wolf in sight. When a local man is found mangled, the clues to the murder somehow lead straight to Levi.

Love and hate, ancient myth and modern politics, mob mentality and justice, are some of the conflicting forces Levi has to deal with as he strives to clear his name, save the wolves, and negotiate the delicate dance of love. This vivid, fast-paced mystery is set against the stunning Montana landscape, where ancient myth becomes real.

Available at Book View Café Press (https://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/category/all-genres/), Amazon, and in all great bookstores. Ebook and trade paperback.

and Light

Paul Piper’s bright, imagistic, at times provocative poems bring his world into uncommon clarity. Piper is open to the everyday promptings of the world, and his vision embraces a necessary darkness as well as an “incorruptible light.” His images, clear, fresh, and recognizable, open into insights that astonish. And his longer pieces, like the moving cycle of poems on his father’s death, bring revelations that are profound. Piper’s poems are honest, perceptive, surprising, and true. It’s a gift to have them in the world. -Tim McNulty

 

South Fork & Other Stories (ebook) (Smashwords edition)  (Kindle edition)

A diverse collection of short fiction, inspired by place and experience.

 

A Flutter of Birds Passing Through Heaven: A Tribute to Robert Sund  Co-edited by Allen Frost and Paul S. Piper

The poet and artist Robert Sund is a Pacific Northwest legend. This book is an inspired biography comprised of stories, memories, poetry, photography and artwork by those who knew him. The book is also filled with previously unpublished and uncollected works by Sund. A tribute to a life committed to poetry, calligraphy, art and friendship.

 

Dogs and Other Poems (2011, Bird Dog Press) poetry

“In Paul Piper’s newest collection of poems, Dog, like a bodhisattva, leads the narrator and reader to a place that glistens with wonder and humor.” Charles Luckmann

 

 Winter Apples (2007, Bird Dog Press) poetry

“You’ve picked up a book like a stone from a river.  You’re lucky you found this beauty.  Turn it around, open the seams and read.”  Allen Frost

 

 

X Stories (2006, Flying Trout Press) essays; co-edited with Charles Luckmann

“This is a handbook for all of us who live with the consequences of fragile X.”  Mary Jane Clark

“I truly loved this book.”  Katie Clapp

 

Now & Then (2003, Flying Trout Press) poetry

“Paul Piper brings us this deeply felt collection composed out of the fabric of particulars pushed to the verge of lyric abstraction.”  Rick Newby

 

 

Father Nature  (2003, University of Iowa) essays; co-edited with Stan Tag

“Father Nature reminds us that each one of these shared moments on the land is a declaration of love.”  Stephen Trimble

 

 

 

Forthcoming

The Soul Craves Most What Is Lost (novel) (nearing completion)