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For the Sake of the Light New and Selected Poems

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Free Download For the Sake of the Light : New and Selected Poems By Tom Sexton
2009 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 1602230501 | PDF | 1 MB
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. aaaa "OC "His language is clear, without tricks or fancy moves, yet his directness is powerful, and the effects are humanOCOOCoPaul Zimmer, "Georgia Review" "
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Benchmarks New and Selected Poems 1963-2013

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Free Download Benchmarks : New and Selected Poems 1963-2013 By Richard Dauenhauer
2013 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1602232091 | PDF | 1 MB
Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer’s poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor’s benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights–readers will find a new experience with each turn.
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