John Straley crafts here a collection of poems that pay homage to his home of the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Alaska. His narrative poetry is infused with sharp wit and delicate details, as he meditates on the natural world of the Pacific coastline and its rhythmic seasonal patterns, cycles of rain and rich abundance. Straley intertwines the personal and political to create elegies of refreshing honesty and universal scope, making "The Rising and the Rain" a powerful work by one of the top emerging poets today.
- ISBN10 1602230331
- ISBN13 9781602230330
- Publish Date 15 October 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Alaska Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9781602230330