The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882404830 ISBN 13: 9780882404837

Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books, 1996

Synopsis

An anthology of Alaskan writing features Native Alaskan legends and tales and the works of authors from Robert W. Service and Jack London to contemporary writers

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. He homesteaded in Alaska for over twenty years. He is the author of several major collections of poetry; a collection of reviews, essays, interviews, and autobiography, ""Living Off the Country"" (University of Michigan Press, 1981); and a memoir, ""The Stars, the Snow, the Fire"" (Graywolf Press, 1989). He has received numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Alaska Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and most recently a Western State Arts Federation Lifetime Achievement Award and a Lenore Marshall/""The Nation"" poetry prize for ""New Poems 1980-1988 ""(Story Line Press, 1990). He is currently a freelance writer and teacher and still spends part of each year in Alaska.

From Library Journal:

Mergler, an Alaskan since l968 and a writer and teacher by profession, has blended his love for literature and his attachment to Alaska in one literary extravaganza. This exceptional anthology provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of the state and the scope and diversity of its literature. It draws on over 75 writers of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, who explore a variety of themes?nature, survival, early people, legends, and modern times. For instance, Ethel Ross Oliver retells the Eskimo legend describing how the raven brought light, environmentalist Margaret E. Murie recounts her arrival in Alaska at age nine in 1911, and Art Davidson gives a moving account of the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez disaster. An enchanting sampler; for public libraries.?Jo-Anne Mary Benson, Osgoode, Ontario
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About this edition

• Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0882404830
• ISBN 13: 9780882404837
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 816
• Editor: Mergler Wayne