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1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) |
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University of Alaska Press - Alaska Writer Laureate |
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University of Alaska Press - Alaska Writer Laureate
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| Contents |
New Poems; Eiders; Passamaquoddy Bay; Lubec, Maine; Night-Herons; At East Machias; In Waldo County, Maine; Crossing the Blueberry Barrens; A Harvard Millerite Ascends; Uncle Eli Glover Moving; The Banishment of Saint Columba; Trawl; Arnprior, Ontario; On the Empire Builder Heading West; Burial Ground; The Emperor; Broad Pass, September; Cow Parsnip; Mountain Bluebirds; Beluga Point; Cottonwood Seed; Porcupine; At the Turning of the Season; That Other World; Summer Waterfall; Butterfly Lake; Juncos; Snow Buntings; Steller's Jay; Steller's Sea Cow, 1742-1768 |
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Ursus Maritimus, the Polar BearDriving Toward Nenana; Cottonwood; Mountain Lake; Walking the Marsh; Mew Gulls; Snowy Owl; Looking to the West; Brown Creeper; A Necessary Poem; A Snowy Morning in May; The Man Who Learned Dena'ina; Clear and Cold; Two Ravens in a Tree; Tugs; Under Polaris; Dawson City, Yukon Territory; Signs of Spring; Wild Swans; Saint Lucia's Day; The Kite Flyers; Redpolls; The Iris Hunters; From: Terra Incognita (1974); Terra Incognita; Uncle Paul; Astoria; At Daybreak; December; From: Late August on the Kenai River (1991); Poolshark; Anchorage; Homer; Trapper Creek |
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The Wedding of Cecelia DemidorfCompass Rose; Nikolaevsk; Saint Marys; On Reading Wang Wei; Late August on the Kenai River; Open Season; Two Poems for the Solstice; Harvest; From: A Bend Toward Asia (1993); Kodiak; Yakutat; El Dorado; Chitina; Gulkana Berry Pickers; The Princess Line; Chenega; Cygnus; -60; De Rerum Natura: or Of Nature's Things; In the Snow; Ritual; Waiting for Spring; Aleutians; Iris; Extending the Range; Springs; After the August Rains; Wolves; Pass Creek; Hurricane; Walking to the Beaver Pond with My Wife; On the Russian River; The Marsh in Spring; Sweet Spring Grasses |
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Crows on Bare BranchesWind; Muskeg; From: A Blossom of Snow (1995); Naming; Winter Landscape; Burnet; Lin He-Jing; Towns; Lament; King Island; Beluga; Pleiades; Transformations; Marsh Violets; Crows; Homage to Neidecker; Fiddlehead; From: Leaving for a Year (1998); Thinking of Tu Fu on a Summer Evening; Leaving for a Year; Crossing the Divide; At Feng-Hsiang; Poem Begun on Mother's Day; Portage La Prairie; Melting Snow; From: Autumn in the Alaska Range (2000); On the Death of a Homeless Man; Rowing Toward the Spirit World; For Art and Anna on Their Wedding Day; Spirit Houses at Tazlina |
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The Alaska RangeThe Cross Fox; Rowan Tree; A Blessing; Landscape; A Letter to Tu Fu; Touch-Me-Not; Solstice; In Glacial Light; The Bear that Visits Our Cabin; Willow Ptarmigan; Lynx; Blue Flag; Wilson's Warblers; The Mountains in Winter; Winter Solstice; The Gift of Snow; Winter Finch; Denali; Poem About the Moon; Rising from the Dark; April; Poem Written Near Hurricane; Autumn in the Alaska Range; Numen; Paradise Valley; Setosa; Epitaph; For the Sake of the Light; From: World Brimming Over (2003); By an Abandoned Railroad Line; In the Kitchen; Butcher Bird; American Dippers; Pastoral |
| Summary |
This collection of new and selected poems by the former poet laureate of Alaska, Tom Sexton, opens a door on the essence of life in Alaska and Maine. Sexton divides his year between the two states, and he captures here the small but powerful sensual details of day-to-day life in these contrasting, yet similar, environs. His carefully crafted verse distills the birch and aspen, lynx and ptarmigan, and the snow on high peaks. Through his poems we thrill to experience encounters with the wild, the seasons, and the sublime landscape. "His language is clear, without tricks or fancy moves, yet h |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Alaska -- Poetry
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Alaska
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781602231153 |
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160223115X |
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