Benchmarks
New and Selected Poems 1963-2013
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
264 pages
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6 x 9
Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer’s poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor’s benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights—readers will find a new experience with each turn.
Sheila Nickerson, former poet laureate of Alaska and author of Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
“Any reader interested in the best Alaska poetry would want Benchmarks. This book is a work of northern experience by a writer dedicated to that experience. It is a work, moreover, that could alter and deepen perception of Alaska and bring new appreciation to circumpolar literature."
John Morgan, author of Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika: New and Selected Poems and Forms of Feeling: Poetry in Our Lives
"The many poems included cover a wide range of subjects and approaches, each with a deft feeling for form and poetic line. The variety is hardly surprising in a book covering fiftyh years of poetic activity."
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Literature and Literary Criticism: Poetry
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