Author: Dwayne ColePublisher: Dwayne Cole
ISBN: 9781578337293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of nature poetry and photographs.
Bears and Moose of Alaska: Nature Poetry
Author: Dwayne ColePublisher: Dwayne Cole
ISBN: 9781578337293
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of nature poetry and photographs.
Wild by Nature
Author: Terry Herda GuckerPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1456712292
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
A womans passion for wilderness, family, and faith leads her to a land of harsh realities and great fulfillment - a celebrated perspective on the Alaskan experience. This prose is a vibrant celebration, both sensual and poetic, of the familiar and unobserved nature of simple truths that abound around us. It is compelling and full-bodied, demanding to be savored. A captivating and courageous style of writing one rarely encounters. Douglas H. Hudson ~ Alaskan and the Pacific Northwest Artist In this collection you can experience Gods Country through the eyes of an adventurous author who revels in the untamed wilderness of Alaska. Here also are the seasons of personal growth and family life with all its joys and sorrows. Whether in prose or poetry, Theresa reveals a wondrous talent for keen observation, rich description, and exquisite phrasing. Her work is both vibrant and reverent. Norma L. Halvorsen ~ Oxford educated English professor, now retired Turn off your radio, TV, computer, Blackberry, raspberry or everyberry and let Terrys prose surround you. Turn on your imagination and the natural world will return in all its beauty. Terry has a way with words that will refresh your spirit. Bob Pickrell ~ publisher of the best little magazine once in Alaska. Both are now retired Bravo! To Terry Herda Gucker. Her poem, Magdalene, is a mini masterpiece in theology. Encore! Father Louis L. Renner, SJ ~ historian, author, journalist and preist
Big Blue: And Other Poems about the People and Animals of Alaska--The Last Frontier.
Author: Bill BurrowsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781790618484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Anyone who has spent any time in the North Country, either as a visitor or a resident, has probably heard the name Robert Service. This book is more or less an homage to this British-Canadian poet and writer, often referred to as "The Bard of the Yukon". His poignant and frequently humorous poems were mostly written during the great Yukon Gold Rush. But they they are still performed to this day at tourist attractions all over Alaska and Northwest Canada. His most famous works (and the ones you will hear recited almost exclusively) are "The Spell of the Yukon", "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and, my favorite, "The Cremation of Sam McGee". I discovered my talent for writing poetry when I got married and began writing poems to my wife for her birthday, Valentines Day and 40 anniversaries. Most of them were fairly short. But then recently, on a whim, I attempted what I call an "epic" story poem. When I started writing, I immediately thought of Robert Service's style-- especially the rhyming scheme he often employs in which he puts a double rhyme within the first and third lines of each stanza. This style is colorfully on display in the opening of "McGee":There are strange things done 'neath the Midnight Sunby the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tailsthat will make your blood run cold.The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,but the queerest they ever did see;was the night on the 'marg of Lake LeBargewhen I cremated Sam McGee! The result of the first foray into long-form poetry was "More than I Could Bear"--a tale of an unlikely relationship formed between a man and an Alaskan brown bear. And, the next thing I knew, I had written enough poems for a book! My other inspiration, was wildlife artist Douglas Allen. I first saw his amazing pen and ink illustrations, at about age ten, in a little known tome entitled: The Complete Book of Hunting by Clyde Ormond. I got my parents to buy me some quill art pens and a bottle of India ink and did my best to copy them--with limited success. (Ironically, years later, one of his drawings of a brown bear was chosen to be featured on the license plate of our new home-Alaska). Now, fifty years later, I had the idea to give pen and ink another try and illustrate my book of poetry. So, this book is also an homage to Douglas Allen. I hope you enjoy both my poems and my drawings--at least enough that I will be encouraged to do more!
Lucky Hares and Itchy Bears
Author: Susan EwingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780882405513
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of fifteen poems each of which describes an intriguing, unusual, or fun fact about a northern animal including the caribou, snowshoe hare, and wolf.
Dominion of Bears
Author: Sherry SimpsonPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619356
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side. As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between bears and humans is ancient and ongoing and, in Alaska, profoundly and often uncomfortably close. A huge number of North America’s bears live in Alaska: including at least 31,000 brown bears, 100,000 black bears, and 3,500 polar bears. And nearly every aspect of Alaskan society reflects their presence, from hunting to tourism marketing to wildlife management to urban planning. A long-time Alaskan, Simpson offers a series of compelling essays on Alaskan bears in both wild and urban spaces—because in Alaska, bears are found not only in their natural habitat but also in cities and towns. Combining field research, interviews, and a host of up-to-date scientific sources, her finely polished prose conveys a wealth of information and insight on ursine biology, behavior, feeding, mating, social structure, and much more. Simpson crisscrosses the Alaskan landscape in pursuit of bears as she muses, marvels, and often stands in sheer awe before these charismatic creatures. Firmly grounded in the expertise of wildlife biologists, hunters, and viewing guides, she shows bears as they actually are, not as we imagine them to be. She considers not only the occasionally aggressive behavior bears need to survive, but also the violence exacted upon them by trophy hunters, advocates of predator control, or suburbanites who view bears as land sharks that threaten the safety of their families. Shifting effortlessly between fascinating facts and poetic imagery, Simpson crafts an extended meditation on why we are so drawn to bears and why they continue to engage our imaginations, populate indigenous mythologies, and help define our essential visions of wilderness. As Simpson observes, “The slightest evidence that bears share your world—or that you share theirs—can alter not only your sense of the landscape, but your sense of yourself within that landscape.”
Moose Dropping and Other Crimes Against Nature
Author: Tom BrennanPublisher: Epicenter Press
ISBN: 9780945397847
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
In these one-liners, practical jokes, and funny stories, Tom Brennan shares hilarious and engaging tales of people, animals, and politicians of the Far North.
The Bear from Alaska and Other Selected Verse
Author: Janice L. DownesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780958162111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Of Moose and Me
Author: K. Brenna WardellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780999686942
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
In her evocative memoir Of Moose and Me, author and scholar K. Brenna Wardell recalls her childhood in Alaska and her powerful interactions with the region's diverse fauna, both tame and wild. Through a series of concise, vividly realized, and often humorous anecdotes, interspersed with poems that are at once lyrical and introspective, Wardell takes the reader on a journey across time to a place where the distinctions between the human and nonhuman are blurred by an icy Alaskan wind.
Alaska Bear Tales
Author: Larry KaniutPublisher: Larry Kaniut
ISBN: 9780882402321
Category : Bear hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Describes both humorous and deadly contacts between humans and bears in Alaska and reviews the precautions for avoiding a bear attack
Lucky Hares and Itchy Bears
Author: Susan EwingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780985850647
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A Beastiary of Alaskan Animals in Poem and Picture