Benchmarks: New and Selected Poems 1963-2013
University of Alaska Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-1-60223-210-5 | Paper: 978-1-60223-209-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3554.A84B46 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
eISBN: 978-1-60223-210-5 | Paper: 978-1-60223-209-9
Library of Congress Classification PS3554.A84B46 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer’s poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor’s benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights—readers will find a new experience with each turn.
