Bone Willows (Paperback)

James Engelhardt

ISBN 10: 1597099058 / ISBN 13: 9781597099059

Published by Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. 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. How to make sense of moving to, and living in, Alaska? In James Engelhardt's debut collection, these questions form the narrative and meditative frame for a landscape of domesticity and wilderness. Change comes quickly in the Far North, and transformation is the only constant. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781597099059

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bone Willows (Paperback)
• Publisher: Red Hen Press, Pasadena
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597099058
• ISBN 13: 9781597099059
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.