For the Sake of the Light: New and Selected Poems

by Tom Sexton

This collection of new and selected poems by the former poet laureate of Alaska, Tom Sexton, opens a door on the essence of life in Alaska and Maine. Sexton divides his year between the two states, and he captures here the small but powerful sensual details of day-to-day life in these contrasting, yet similar, environs. His carefully crafted verse distills the birch and aspen, lynx and ptarmigan, and the snow on high peaks. Through his poems we...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602230501
• ISBN13: 9781602230507
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"