the habit of rainy nights press

The time has finally arrived to make our move out of Portland. Beginning on July 1st, our official address will be 401 S. Water St., Silverton, OR 97381.

For those who don’t know, Silverton is a beautiful little historic town on Silver Creek, east of Salem. It is a very literary-friendly town with its own annual poetry festival and a chapter of the Oregon Poetry Association. We are very excited about our move, and setting up a real office with walk-in access.

The address, of course, will also be our home address - we haven’t come into some pot of gold or anything. But it is on the main drag through town, in a business zone next door to the town newspaper, and across the street from City Hall, so we will be able to hang out a shingle.

We plan to keep in close contact with all of our Portland friends. Patty and I are so used to living in the city, it will be quite a change for us, so we expect to visit often.

Here are some of the blurbs we’ve received from Oregon authors who have read The Eye of the Moon.

“Shelley Davidow’s extraordinary, lyrical prose is dense with fragrance, eroticism, and the poetry of recalled passion. The short sections read like perfect snapshots of the past, holding a rhythm and deep sensuality reminiscent of French writers like Monique Wittig and Helene Sixous, whose work this memoir joins as a classic feminist tale–a gem of wisdom and beauty.

“In this important memoir, Davidow’s personal history lives alongside the unfolding, violent history of her homeland, South Africa. Her own particular coming-of-age story walks the steaming red earth of that land….”
–Judith Barrington, author of Writing the Memoir and Lifesaving

“Daring. Courageous. Brilliant. Beautiful. Scrupulously truthful. The Eye of the Moon is unlike anything I’ve ever read, and so astonishingly good I don’t think I’ll ever forget it.”
–Molly Gloss, author of The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, and Wild Life.

“Shelley Davidow has built a mandala, with truth as the single bright bead at the center. This artist walks unblinking through the paradoxes of the colonization of both hemispheres, finding her way through the clashing gates of story and silence, of courage and fear—whichever way the moon faces—by an earth-rooted belief in love. She leaves us awed, breathing in time with her voice, holding this gift like ripe mangos, completed and circling on.”
–Bette Lynch Husted, author of Above the Clearwater –Living on Stolen Land

Review copies will be available in a few weeks from The Habit of Rainy Nights Press.