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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452493303321

Autore

Kremers Carolyn <1951->

Titolo

Upriver [[electronic resource] /] / Carolyn Kremers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2013

ISBN

1-60223-203-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Alaska Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Story knife; "When the boat is built . . ."; Maps; Tununak; Sestina Kyrie; The New Teacher; The New Students; Eskimo Dancing/Yurarluni; Dr. Seuss & the Department of Fish & Game; What Scares Me; The Language Keepers; The Interior; Trapline; At the Tetlin River; Back country Unit #12; All I Wanted; Kass'aq with Nunivak Mask; What I Did Not Imagine; Apparition; Before You Go; Shape shifting; Two with Spears; Return to the Y-K Delta; Bethel at Christmas; The Shortest Distance; Freak Warm Weather; Attraction; After Reading The Business of Fancy dancing; The Egg House in Bethel; Fairbanks

Lessons When I Am 98; Notes of a Beautiful Woman Living Alone; At Ann's Greenhouse; Feeling and Knowing; The Nature of Prayer; Leaving Alaska; Acknowledgements; Notes; Author

Sommario/riassunto

There is a triumphant and satisfying feeling the first time one returns to a once-unfamiliar place and finally feels like it is home. When strangeness is shed and familiar patterns emerge, there is a deep sense of comfort that is the reward for those who venture into new places. When Carolyn Kremers moved alone to Alaska to teach in Tununak, a village on the Bering Sea, she faced the challenge of making a place for herself in the remote coastal town. Struck by both a sense of adventure and a painful longing for the familiar, she was forced to confront what it really meant to feel at home.Upriver