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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.
A Story About the Body
A Story About the Body -Robert Hass The young composer, working that summer at an artist's colony, had watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter, ...
Read More Ways of Seeing: An Alaskan Disptach
"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden." -Phaedrus I hear the spring birds raising ...
Read More Famous and Not So Famous Last Words
This, too...is wonder. -Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen teacher, d.2011Am I dying...or is this my birthday? (when she woke briefly and looked at everyone standing 'round her bed) -Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964 ...
Read More March River Walk
I walk the river discovering a new direction where cutbanks have sloughed off and bending trees lean with a weary creak meltwater seeps up, whirlpools suck down and everything is ...
Read More Breath and Bones: Memoir Excerpt #4
By mid May, there is no refreezing of melt water in the villages far north of the Brooks Range. Yet on one spring visit to Kaktovik, an Inupiat village ...
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