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- ISBN 9781597099059
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2018
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the Alaska-based poems of Bone Willows, the wheel of the year spins faster than in the Lower Forty-Eight: “Arctic spring bicycles down a bookcase.” And the frantic course of time affects everything from non-human nature to the ways a couple with a small child make their way in the world. Here, animals “glow with no light,” friends remind each other that “it will break again, the push will come and it will all break again,” and home is “a secret held against hard dark.” In this debut collection, James Engelhardt gives readers the hidden Alaska—not of glaciers and brown bears and tourist stops—but of expressways and families and dinner parties.
James Engelhardt lived for five years in Fairbanks, Alaska, with his wife and daughter. He was active in the poetry community there. His poetry has appeared in North American Review, Natural Bridge, Terrain.org, Ice Floe, and many other journals. His critical work has appeared in the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association and Mid-America Review. He is an acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press.
