Download or read book Alaska in Haiku written by David Hoopes and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winter moon–light— The Shadow of the totem pole, Shadow of the spruce. Alaska in Haiku is the flower of the authors' affectionate observation of life in Alaska and if their love of poetry. Sharing an interest in this shortest of all forms of poetry, they found haiku a most gratifying medium to work in. The reader is invited to follow Mrs. Tillion and Dr. Hoopes through the four seasons and share their delight in Alaska. The pleasing images, highlighted by delicate drawings show nature and life in a hopeful, reassuring mood.
Download or read book Alaska Haiku Connections written by Jane Eidler and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deep in Alaska written by Christine Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with photographs and written in the form of a series of haikus, this story reveals a boy's enjoyment of Alaska in winter.
Download or read book Howling Husky Haiku written by Ryan Dowling and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howling Husky Haiku are a series of mostly Alaska-inspired haiku, many of which were written off the cuff between bouts of gardening, mushing, fishing and beekeeping, and then labored over the long Alaskan winter in the course of a year. Although these haiku do not follow the traditional syllable count and sometimes neglect the seasonal themes typical of Japanese haiku, the poet has endeavored to capture the same Zen-like awareness, crystalline imagery and insightful brevity that runs with such eloquence through the likes of Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki. In short, these haiku strive for similar ends as those of the Japanese masters, but their setting, their language, their particular brand of consciousness is always American—and often Alaskan. The howls of huskies rise over mountains and fall quiet as snow.
Download or read book 100 Poems of Spring written by John Straley and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For the Sake of the Light written by Tom Sexton and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 his directness is powerful, and the effects are human”—Paul Zimmer, Georgia Review
Download or read book Under Hawk S Gaze written by Steve K. Bertrand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Hawks Gaze is a collection of haiku by Steve K. Bertrand.
Download or read book Net of Fireflies written by Harold Stewart and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Net of Fireflies is a superb collection of classic haiku composed by the leading writers of this delicate but intricate art form. With over three Japanese hundred haiku poems written over five centuries, the book is a thorough introduction to the unique world of Japanese haiku. Thirty-three full color haiku paintings complement the poems, providing a new and delightful dimension for understanding and appreciating this often illusive but always evocative poetic form.
Download or read book The Bear in the Blueberry written by Robin K Robbins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bear in the Blueberry" is a circle story. The sun, the rain, the earth and even the bear "poop" are in the blueberry. Everything is in everything so protect the earth. The book includes a blueberry pancake recipe and three pages of bear facts that surprise even longtime Alaskan residents. The watercolor illustrations are beautiful and whimsical with each bear having his or her own distinct personality.
Download or read book Wild by Nature written by Terry Herda Gucker and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A womans passion for wilderness, family, and faith leads her to a land of harsh realities and great fulfillment - a celebrated perspective on the Alaskan experience. This prose is a vibrant celebration, both sensual and poetic, of the familiar and unobserved nature of simple truths that abound around us. It is compelling and full-bodied, demanding to be savored. A captivating and courageous style of writing one rarely encounters. Douglas H. Hudson ~ Alaskan and the Pacific Northwest Artist In this collection you can experience Gods Country through the eyes of an adventurous author who revels in the untamed wilderness of Alaska. Here also are the seasons of personal growth and family life with all its joys and sorrows. Whether in prose or poetry, Theresa reveals a wondrous talent for keen observation, rich description, and exquisite phrasing. Her work is both vibrant and reverent. Norma L. Halvorsen ~ Oxford educated English professor, now retired Turn off your radio, TV, computer, Blackberry, raspberry or everyberry and let Terrys prose surround you. Turn on your imagination and the natural world will return in all its beauty. Terry has a way with words that will refresh your spirit. Bob Pickrell ~ publisher of the best little magazine once in Alaska. Both are now retired Bravo! To Terry Herda Gucker. Her poem, Magdalene, is a mini masterpiece in theology. Encore! Father Louis L. Renner, SJ ~ historian, author, journalist and preist
Download or read book Sky Songs North written by Elaine Shea and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 25 years ago, Elaine Shea went to Alaska to serve as an early childhood federal reviewer visiting American Indian, and Alaska Native Head Start villages. To get around, she relied on Alaska bush planes, dog sleds, 3-wheelers, and snow machines once she crossed the Arctic Circle to get to the US's 50th state. Vivid imagery fills these 50 vignettes and poems about Alaska's culture and natives, seen through the sensitive lens of an esteemed American poet from Montana. Elaine captures the people, places, and experiences of her time. "We are off to Quinhagak; maybe caribou on the Kuskokwim River, frozen fish camps, criss-cross snow machine tracks, eel hookers, skin boats, and tundra designs lead us to the ocean." Travel with Elaine as she explores America's Last Frontier and other native lands in the US through her beautiful memoir of place, time, and people.
Download or read book Roughly For the North written by Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North.” Roughly for the North is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an act of devotion and love to one’s family and land. Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen weaves a moving portrait of grief, of the rippling effects of historical trauma on succeeding generations, of resilience in the face of adversity, of respect for the Alaska Native traditions she grew up in. With vivid imagery, she draws the reader into Northern life, where the spiritual and industrial collide. She uses formalism and lyrical free verse to explore the natural world and to conjure a place of staggering beauty that hides death around every corner. A member of the Ugiuvamiut tribe, Ojanen grounds her work in a web of familial relationships. Especially important is her connection with her grandparents, members of the last generation to make their home on Ugiuvak (King Island), Alaska. With heartfelt verse, her poems reflect the staggering cultural changes her grandparents faced and the way traditional art forms continue to unite her community and help them connect to the past.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of Alaska Poetry written by Poetry Society of Alaska and published by Denver : Big Mountain Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward Antarctica written by Elizabeth Bradfield and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most original piece of travel writing about the Antarctic region I have read in years . . . Bradfield is a literary tour guide in the best sense.” —Elizabeth Leane, author of Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South A poet and a naturalist, Elizabeth Bradfield documents and examines her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica through poetry, prose, and photographs, offering an incisive insider’s vision that challenges traditional tropes of The Last Continent. Inspired by haibun, a stylistic form of Japanese poetry invented by seventeenth-century poet Matsuo Basho to chronicle his journeys in remote Japan, Bradfield uses photographs, compressed prose, and short poems to examine our relationship to remoteness, discovery, expertise, awe, labor, temporary societies, “pure” landscapes, and tourism’s service economy. Antarctica was the focus of Bradfield’s Approaching Ice, written before she had set foot on the continent; now Toward Antarctica furthers her investigation with boots on the ground. A complicated love letter, Toward Antarctica offers a unique view of one of the world’s most iconic wild places. Like having a poet’s behind-the-scenes tour of a natural history museum . . . the exquisite landscape and wildlife come into vivid view; so does the gutsy work and responsibility of being a naturalist guide.” —Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit
Download or read book Big Blue And Other Poems about the People and Animals of Alaska The Last Frontier written by Bill Burrows and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has spent any time in the North Country, either as a visitor or a resident, has probably heard the name Robert Service. This book is more or less an homage to this British-Canadian poet and writer, often referred to as "The Bard of the Yukon". His poignant and frequently humorous poems were mostly written during the great Yukon Gold Rush. But they they are still performed to this day at tourist attractions all over Alaska and Northwest Canada. His most famous works (and the ones you will hear recited almost exclusively) are "The Spell of the Yukon", "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and, my favorite, "The Cremation of Sam McGee". I discovered my talent for writing poetry when I got married and began writing poems to my wife for her birthday, Valentines Day and 40 anniversaries. Most of them were fairly short. But then recently, on a whim, I attempted what I call an "epic" story poem. When I started writing, I immediately thought of Robert Service's style-- especially the rhyming scheme he often employs in which he puts a double rhyme within the first and third lines of each stanza. This style is colorfully on display in the opening of "McGee":There are strange things done 'neath the Midnight Sunby the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tailsthat will make your blood run cold.The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,but the queerest they ever did see;was the night on the 'marg of Lake LeBargewhen I cremated Sam McGee! The result of the first foray into long-form poetry was "More than I Could Bear"--a tale of an unlikely relationship formed between a man and an Alaskan brown bear. And, the next thing I knew, I had written enough poems for a book! My other inspiration, was wildlife artist Douglas Allen. I first saw his amazing pen and ink illustrations, at about age ten, in a little known tome entitled: The Complete Book of Hunting by Clyde Ormond. I got my parents to buy me some quill art pens and a bottle of India ink and did my best to copy them--with limited success. (Ironically, years later, one of his drawings of a brown bear was chosen to be featured on the license plate of our new home-Alaska). Now, fifty years later, I had the idea to give pen and ink another try and illustrate my book of poetry. So, this book is also an homage to Douglas Allen. I hope you enjoy both my poems and my drawings--at least enough that I will be encouraged to do more!
Download or read book The Royal Treatment written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world nearly identical to ours, the North won the Civil War, Ben Affleck is the sexiest man alive, and Russia never sold Alaska to the U.S. Instead, Alaska is a rough, beautiful country ruled by a famously eccentric royal family, and urgently in need of a bride for the Crown Prince. But they have no idea what they're in for when they offer the job to a feisty commoner. . .a girl who's going to need. . . The Royal Treatment The Princess-To-Be Primer, Or, Things I've Learned Really Quick, As Compiled by Her Future Royal Highness--Yeah, Whatever--Christina. That's me. 1. Telling jokes you picked up from the guys on the fishing boat doesn't go over really well at a fancy ball. 2. Must learn to curtsy, stifle burps, and tell the difference between a salad fork and a fruit knife. 3. Must not keep thinking about Prince David's amazing eyes, lips, hands, shoulders, uh. . .wait, can I start over? 4. Becoming a princess is a lot harder than it looks. 5. Falling in love is a whole lot easier. . . In this dazzling, delightfully wacky tale from MaryJanice Davidson, a tough commoner and a royal prince are about to discover that who they truly are. . .and what they desperately desire. . .may both be closer than they ever dreamed. . .
Download or read book Anchorage written by David Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected haiku from the leading practitioner of the genre currently writing in the UK.
