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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
Trajectory
the river doesn't follow a straight line pulled by the moon, but roams like a coyote following root skin and scent. ice jams push sludge-brown waters (on a screaming path), ...
Read More Long Day Done
The first call came from friends, standing at the murky water’s edge. Our cabin-house on the Copper was about to fall into the river. First: “the cabin is 20’ from ...
Read More Over 200 Grandchildren? Elder Katie John’s Legend
If you were a person, both young and middle-aged, wearing a white scarf, a white ribbon, or a white bandana at Katie John’s celebration of life, you were one of ...
Read More Quiet Solitude or Lonely Isolation?
I took this photo of books on a shelf in an old remote cabin we explored on Iliamna Bay. The cabin was filled with junk; an old stove turned on ...
Read More Adventure is Out There
A shipwreck. A volcano shawled in snow. Blue, glassy seas. We started our 60 mile journey from Homer, Alaska under perfect blue skies for a 3 day excursion to ...
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