University of Alaska Press releases new poetry books
April 1, 2019
The University of Alaska Press has released "Of Darkness and Light," poems by Kim
Cornwall, edited by Wendy Erd; "Be-Hooved" by Mar Ka; and is now distributing Marjorie
Kowalski Cole’s "Inside, Outside, Morningside" poems. The poetry in "Of Darkness and Light," weaves family and myth — strong women, wild landscapes, the search for reconciliation in circumstances beyond control — in a radiant language of pain, solace, wonder, and gratitude. Kim Cornwall (1967–2010) grew up in British Columbia’s long valleys and vast family ranches. Her poem, “What Whales and Infants Know,” inspired a statewide poetry project, “Poems in Place,” that set poems by Alaska writers on signs in Alaska’s state parks. Wendy Erd is an Alaska poet and former director of “Poems in Place.”
"Be-Hooved," Mar Ka’s new poetry collection, creates a layered spiritual memoir of her decades in the northern wilderness. The poems inhabit her surroundings—structured along the seasons and the migration patterns of the Porcupine caribou herd—and are wrought with a fine and luminous language.
Marjorie Kowalski Cole's award-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals. She lived in northern Alaska from 1966 until her death in 2009. She worked at a lumber yard, as a printer, an instructor at UAF and as a reference librarian.
For more information about these titles and many more please visit www.uapress.alaska.edu or call 800-621-2736.