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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.
The Middle West
A flyover state, Ioway Bahkho-je tribe distant fields of stubbled corn, bull thistle, white tailed deer. "We're friendly", insular with tranquil town squares, and backroad diners that say, eat cheap, ...
Read More Book Spine Poetry
Reporter: Why don't you write the way you talk? Gertrude Stein: Why don't you read the way I write? What follows are poems I did not write. They are poems ...
Read More Cabin Notes: Election Year, Nov. 2012
A Dispatch from Alaska 1. Drive three hours on steep, snowy, narrow mountain roads. 2. Arrive. Assess the river: old ...
Read More Turn Toward What You Deeply Love
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, as fish out of water hear the waves, or a hunting falcon hears the ...
Read More The Last Leaf
Today, as I observed the last leaf struggling to hold onto a twig in my yard, a story came to mind; one I read in childhood and never forgot... a ...
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