Poems "funny, stark, spot-on and utterly beautiful" comprise her collection, "Our Foreigner," "a brilliant and dark comedy." This is Betsy Sholl' s apt description for the poetry of Nance Van Winckel, one of the Northwest's foremost poets and writers, and her latest release-from The Pacific Coast Poetry Series/Beyond Baroque Books. Van Winckel's own relatives traveled west enduring the hardship and tests of character that confronted those who made such treks in the 1800's. "Our Foreigner" explores, among other conditions and anomalies, ideas of journey, progress and regress, travel both...