Bone Willows

In the Alaska-based poems of Bone Willows, the wheel of the year spins faster than in the Lower Forty-Eight: "e;Arctic spring bicycles down a bookcase."e; And the frantic course of time affects everything from non-human nature to the ways a couple with a small child make their way in the world. Here, animals "e;glow with no light,"e; friends remind each other that "e;it will break again, the push will come and it will all break again,"e; and home is "e;a secret held against hard dark."e; In this debut collection, James Engelhardt gives readers the hidden Alaska-not of glaciers and brown bears and tourist stops-but of expressways and families and dinner parties.