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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
Roadside Culture
As a child of the sixties, I was among the cult followers of Tom Robbins’ first novel, published in 1971, called Another Roadside Attraction. In the novel, we follow ...
Read More God Told Me
"Pedernal is my favorite mountain," the famous painter, Georgia O'Keefe, once said. Robb Carter, Ghost Ranch guide "God told me if I painted it often enough, I could have it." O'Keefe ...
Read More ALL Land is Sacred
ALL Land is Sacred. The Chama River These words on a bumper sticker in the parking lot of the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I ...
Read More We Have Heaven
I don't know if it's family tradition or something elemental that runs in our genes, but my two brothers and I communicate via email often entirely through the lyrics of ...
Read More Make a Running Jump
Fall sidewalk in Santa Fe Delicious autumn. My very soul is wedded to it. If I were a bird, I would fly about the earth, seeking the successive autumns. I ...
Read More Octavia Bit Into the Apple
Octavia bit into the apple. Its core of ancient seeds peered out at her. We are here, they ...
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