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Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home
by John Messick
In essays that traverse latitudes and continents, John Messick’s debut Compass Lines explores the places that shape our journeys toward belonging. From Antarctica to the Arctic, a tattoo parlor in Cambodia to an abandoned Alaska mine and beyond, this deeply felt and researched book teaches us how learning the rhythms of places we inhabit requires both movement and stillness.
Cold Mountain Path: The Ghost Town Decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska
by Tom Kizzia
In this award winning, bestselling history of an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds a deeply American saga of abandonment, renunciation, and renewal.
Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast, says the book is “an environmental history, one that without ever belaboring the point examines how people come to value land and place, and how contestations over that value remain at the core of Alaskan—and American—social life . . . Cold Mountain Path is, for readers in the lower 48, both an introduction to a particularly Alaskan place and a story that situates Alaska in broad themes of the American 20th century: the relationship to land and ownership, the tensions between individualism and community, our relationship with government near and far, our hopes for the future and knowledge of the past. All of this is situated in a place that changes as dynamically as its people, told with great care and in the restrained poetry of Kizzia's prose.”
Distance Over Light
by Corinna Cook
Written as a series of fourteen separately titled pieces, this essay in segments moves between literary criticism, art writing, history, and memory.
FORTHCOMING chapbook with visual art by Yukon artist Jane Isakson
