Download or read book Original Alaskan Poems written by Clarence J. Murray (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Village Boy written by Robert Davis Hoffmann and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12 poems in this collection are about one man's struggle for cultural identity. They describe experiences of loss buffered by sources of cultural strength and adaptation. Hoffmann uses language and imagery that imagines the mythical and historical past of his people, the Tlingit Indians of southeast Alaska. This series of poems are assembled in a way that takes its reader into the author's experiences of historical and cultural loss, confused identity as the result of growing up in two cultures and being half-native, toward catharsis and integrity.
Download or read book Corpse Whale written by dg nanouk okpik and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-proclaimed “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century—a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics. Fearless in her craft, okpik brings an experimental, yet poignant, hybrid aesthetic to her first book, making it truly one of a kind. “It takes all of us seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling to be one,” she says, embodying these words in her work. Every sense is amplified as the poems, carefully arranged, pull the reader into their worlds. While each poem stands on its own, they flow together throughout the collection into a single cohesive body. The book quickly sets up its own rhythms, moving the reader through interior and exterior landscapes, dark and light, and other spaces both ecological and spiritual. These narrative, and often visionary, poems let the lives of animal species and the power of natural processes weave into the human psyche, and vice versa. Okpik’s descriptive rhythms ground the reader in movement and music that transcend everyday logic and open up our hearts to the richness of meaning available in the interior and exterior worlds.
Download or read book Open the Dark written by Marie Tozier and published by Red Hen Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tozier’s first book of poems clearly is emplaced in family, community, geography, history, and the seasonality of animals and plants in Western Alaska.” —Elizabeth Bradfield, author ofToward Antarctica Open the Dark is an exquisite collection of poems depicting a generational tapestry woven with the shared ebb and flow of land and sea and time. Loving hands, dyed sweet with raspberries and lingonberries, pass ancestral knowledge—of the hunt for seal and crab to pressing ironless, ruler-straight seams—from grandmother to mother, mother to daughter. This is a collection that beckons, like a mother’s warm embrace, into the vibrant scent and taste of Iñupiaq Alaska. “A lyrical guide to the life in Northwest Alaska experienced by the Iñupiaq poet and her family . . . Like most books of good poems, it is also a gallery of images for revisiting time after time.” —49 Writers “These deceptively simple poems enlarge with repeated readings; they unfold greater meaning each time and leave a reader with much to contemplate about identity, cultures, generational wisdom, and values. Marie Tozier’s fresh voice is a very welcome addition to Alaskan, Indigenous and American literature.” —Anchorage Daily News
Download or read book Poems on Alaska the Land of the Midnight Sun written by Henry E. Haydon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems on Alaska, the Land of the Midnight Sun: Descriptive, Personal, Humorous Do they come in silks brocaded, Full blown flowers and buds unmated. Maids and matrons all translated From the silent, shadowy land 5 With their lords and loves beside them, So that none may dare deride them If by day the world descried them Dancing with that ghostly band! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Coming Out of Nowhere written by Linda Schandelmeier and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The earth near our place/ was cradle, / it rocked us— / became our skin. / House doors opened, / spilled us out, / we disappeared into trees— / they clothed us in delirious green. /. . . We knew the song / of this place, made it up, / sang it—” Homestead life is often romanticized as a valiant, resilient family persisting in the clean isolation of pristine wilderness, living off the land and depending only on each other. But there can be a darker side to this existence. Linda Schandelmeier was raised on a family homestead six miles south of the fledgling town of Anchorage, Alaska in the 1950s and ’60s. But hers is not a typical homestead story. In this book, part poetic memoir and part historical document, a young girl comes of age in a family fractured by divorce and abuse. Schandelmeier does not shy away from these details of her family history, but she also recognizes her childhood as one that was unique and nurturing, and many of her poems celebrate homestead life. Her words hint at her way of surviving and even transcending the remoteness by suggesting a deeper level of human experience beyond the daily grind of homestead life; a place in which the trees and mountains are almost members of the family. These are poems grounded in the wilds that shimmer with a mythic quality. Schandelmeier’s vivid descriptions of homesteading will draw in readers from all types of lives.
Download or read book The Alaskan Midnight Sun written by Nathan Leviticus Neal and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a combination of romantic short stories, poems, facts and memoirs. These experiences link passed down wisdom, unique imaginative storytelling with positive suggestive lifestyles. Look up, Get up and Never give up Is one of Nathan’s mottos along with using your imagination as a way of life, and remembering to “become the miracle”? Enjoy the Midnight Sun’s stories that will stir your feelings with the sounds of Nathan Leviticus Neal’s words. Learn of the Walrus, Polar Bear, Eagles, Raven, Fox and undocumented facts about Alaska. Born in the “Northwest Territory” known as the “Last Frontier” in a then small town called Anchorage, Alaska this writer has taken the adventures of boyhood, "North Slope" experiences and places traveled within Alaska to share. Most of the writings were inspired by time spent 650 miles north of Anchorage and about 250 miles north of the town considered the most climatic change of temperature in the world; Fairbanks, Alaska where temperatures range from 60 below zero to 95 above in the summer months. From 1977 to 1987 this writer spent a week on and week off schedule with a major oil company traveling to and from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska . The silent bond in friendship and experiences reflect the beauty of this unique place with unique writer content. Well traveled now and living in the Aloha State of Hawaii, Nathan felt it was time to go back in time and glance through a time capsule and give illustrations of Alaska’s beauty that have motivated him to share places that will give you a “northern exposure”. Pour a glass of wine or milk and enjoy stories of old from the land of the Midnight Sun, Aurora Borealis, Polar Bear and a few wise-tale Alaskan stories created for your entertainment.
Download or read book Northern Verses written by Dennis Lattery and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book evolved out of what he saw as a need for a new Christmas poem for children. His poem was titled The Christmas Girl. Nothing of much significance in that genre has been produced since How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Efforts to sell the poems idea for a children's book fell on deaf ears in the publishing world but other work gradually spun off its writing. He found he liked writing rhyming prose, especially in poems about the North country where he lives. So here is Northern Verses, including The Christmas Girl.
Download or read book Alaskana written by Bushrod Washington James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Alaskana: Or Alaska in Descriptive and Legendary Poems I am not egotist enough to suppose that my book may do much toward attracting tourists or speculators to the land, the possession of which makes a truth of the statement that the sun never sets on the Republic of the United States. But if even a few are moved by it to visit its magnificent glaciers, its beautiful straits and channels, and the towns and vil lages so strangely different from our own Eastern Cities; if one or two are tempted to look into the gold-mines of Douglass Island, or to while a little time in sight of Sitka's beau tiful sound and harbor, I will feel thati have not written in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Alaskan Gold written by Mick Manns and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raven Tells Stories written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Greenfield Center, N.Y. : Greenfield Review Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a fresh look at Alaskan culture by bringing together an assortment of poems, stories, essays, plays, and journal excerpts from the writings of Native Alaskans. The authors deal with the transitions, losses, struggles, and successes of life in a changing homeland. Many of the writers vividly remember the changes, good and bad, that statehood brought. Some of the 23 writers are well-known, while others are celebrating their first publication. Most authors provide short autobiographies presenting their cultural and literary influences as an introduction to their statement. ISBN 0-912678-80-1: $12.95.
Download or read book To Live on this Earth written by Ken Waldman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fifteen-year Alaska resident, Ken Waldman has lived in the Alaskan interior, rural Alaska, Southeast Alaska, and now resides in Anchorage. A former English instructor, he has travelled across the state and throughout the lower forty-eight states for over a decade, reading and performing at a number of venues including schools, coffee houses, bookstores, and bars. He frequently travels to Native Alaskan villages and rural communities where he shares his writing and music with students. This second collection of Waldman's poems deeply resonate in their coverage of his Alaskan experience. From sexy poems (Moonshine) to elegies (John's Place) to storytelling (The Quilt) to political poems (A Nation that Grows, Grows, Grows) to humorous poems (A Week in Eek) to a final statement in 'To Live on This Earth', Waldman creates a deeper understanding through the appearance of simplicity. His Alaskan figures become all of us in extreme conditions; his survival mentality becomes a higher morality of purpose.
Download or read book Midnight Dance of the Snowshoe Hare written by Nancy White Carlstrom and published by Philomel. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about Alaska's beautiful but brief spring, summer and fall seasons, which provide a short respite from the cold, dark winter.
Download or read book Four Fevers written by Jack Campbell and published by Excursion Inlet Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Campbell resides in Excursion Inlet, Alaska. His poems in this collection offer lyrical observations on many elements of Alaskan life. Inspired by the poet's experiences as a longtime teacher in a variety of locales, urban to rural, the titles include "Martha's Slough," "Chena Fish Wheel" and "Chinatown Alaska."
Download or read book Alaskan Vogue written by Lyne Beringer and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've had six last names; four by marriage, one because I wanted a new last name after a divorce, and one given to me by the first man in my life, my father. Clearly I haven't yet learned the secret to a long and happy relationship with the opposite sex, but it hasn't stopped me from giving it the old college try.I have a somewhat rebellious nature and have spent most of my life raging against the machine of accepted society norms, which is probably why I ended up living in interior Alaska. It is after all "The Last Frontier," where its citizens still proudly carry guns, and aren't afraid to show them off, or use them if necessary.Alaska is a place a person can get lost in. It is beautiful, wild and unyielding to the pursuits of men of a fanciful nature. You have to want more than shopping malls, fashion and manicured lawns. Alaska can eat you alive, or you can learn to thrive.... one way or another.Alaskan Vogue is really an ongoing diary, written in the form of poetry. It's the thoughts of a woman who showed up as a girl and has spent years in and out of relationships of the heart, all while hauling water, changing tires, and building her own fires to keep the cold at bay. Alaskan Vogue has been a coping mechanism helping me to mentally survive and ultimately shine in this magnificent place I call home.Yes the poems that follow are drenched in cynicism, but there is more to the story. Pleasure, pain, loss and gain is all here, waiting to spark the imaginations of those who think they might have what it takes to be Alaskan Vogue.
Download or read book The First Anthology of Contemporary Alaskan Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems on Alaska the Land of the Midnight Sun Descriptive Personal Humorous written by Henry E. Haydon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
