Crosscurrents North
Alaskans on the Environment
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
320 pages
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6 x 9
The essays and poems collected in Crosscurrents North offer thoughtful meditations on the Alaska environment and the relationship between humans and nature. By distinguished writers such as John Haines, Nick Jans, Marjorie Kowalski Cole, Sherry Simpson, and Bill Sherwonit, these sixty-one compelling pieces celebrate the wildness and wonder of nature as well as the human impact on it. The writers tackle weighty topics such as the changing Alaska landscape and the impact of humans on its wild inhabitants, the effects of climate change, and the environmental side effects of architectural development, as well as tranquil meditations on the iconic bear and wolf or the plant world of berries, moss, and mushrooms. Jay Hammond, the former governor of Alaska, also contributes a foreword.
A clarion call for environmentalists and lovers of literature alike, Crosscurrents North challenges us to reconsider our relationship to the natural world.
Contents
Preface, by Bill McKibben
Foreword, by Jay Hammond
Introduction, by Marybeth Holleman
Poems and Essays
If the Owl Calls Again, John Haines
Your Land, Mike Burwell
The Possibility of Witness, Carolyn Servid
April, Tom Sexton
A Voice for Shared Lands, Hank Lentfer
August, Susan Alexander Derrera
Respect Gaalee'ya, Howard Luke
Continuing a Conversation on Place, Poetry, Love, Amy Crawford
Slouching Toward Deer Rock, Daniel Henry
Dingmait, Joan Kane
Fall, Shannon Gramse
Finding Refuge, Karen Jettmar
Ice Auguries, Burns Cooper
The Mighty Sand Lance, Martin Robards
Morels, Jerah Chadwick
Out of the Depths, Bill Sherwonit
Walker Lake, Peggy Shumaker
Fishing Grounds, Nancy Lord
Withdraw, Joan Kane
Wolf Wars, Nick Jans
Election Day: Reading Chevigny and Thinking About Referendum Six, Anne Coray
Partners on the Wheel: Dancing at the Vernal Equinox, Douglas Yates
Two-Part Invention for Winter, Karen Tschannen
Ghost Bear, Kaylene Johnson
Light on the Kuskokwim, Alexandra Ellen Appel
Standing on a Heart, Steve Kahn
Cormorant Killer, Jerah Chadwick
Facing East, R. Glendon Brunk
Due North, Joan Kane
The Experiment, Nancy Lord
The Moving Out, John Morgan
Going for Water, Karin Dahl
Beached, Pamela A. Miller
Drink, Molly Lou Freeman
The Day the Water Died, Walter Meganack, Sr.
October, Buffy McKay
What Happens When Polar Bears Leave, Marybeth Holleman
Bones, Amy Crawford
Curry Ridge, Sally Carricaburu
Tree Bonking, Ann Dixon
In the Shelter of the Forest, Marjorie Kowalski Cole
Wash Silver, Mike Burwell
The Forest of Eyes, Richard Nelson
Sweet Drug of the Backward Drag, Anne Coray
Losing Out to Baseball, Motherhood, and Apple Pie, Susan Pope
Garbage Bears, Hoonah, Ken Waldman
Crossing Paths, Nick Jans
Sweet Spring Grasses, Tom Sexton
Precarious Preserve, Anne Coray
The Man Who Skins Animals, John Haines
Wondering Where the Whales Are, Eva Saulitis
Otter Woman, Jo Going
That Which Sustains Us, Joanna Wassillie
The Ecology of Subsistence, Cathy Rexford
The Middle Ground, Sherry Simpson
Chatanika, Peggy Shumaker
Ted and Me, Libby Roderick
Denali, Tom Sexton
The Cape, Marybeth Holleman
Return to Richardson, Spring 1981, John Haines
The Last Wolf, Mary TallMountain
Thematic Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
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