Upriver (The Alaska Literary Series) by Carolyn Kremers

Off Womens Poetry

By Carolyn Kremers

There is a effective and gratifying feeling the 1st time one returns to a once-unfamiliar position and eventually appears like it truly is domestic. whilst strangeness is shed and time-honored styles emerge, there's a deep experience of convenience that's the gift if you enterprise into new locations. while Carolyn Kremers moved by myself to Alaska to educate in Tununak, a village at the Bering Sea, she confronted the problem of creating a spot for herself within the distant coastal city. Struck by way of either a feeling of experience and a painful eager for the everyday, she was once compelled to confront what it particularly intended to suppose at home.

Upriver picks up at the tale the place Kremers’s past book, Place of the fake People, left off, additional exploring what it skill to actually love a spot and the way it feels to come back, like a salmon swimming upriver. environment her tale in 4 special locations—Tununak, the Alaska inside, the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, and Fairbanks—Kremers makes use of poetry, song, Yup’ik language, and masses extra to inform her tale. Infused with a feeling of spirituality, the ebook will resonate with somebody who has stumbled on a brand new domestic past the familiar.  

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