University of Alaska Press releases new poetry books

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 they are now distributing Marjoire Kowalski Cole's Inside, Outside, Morningside poems.

Of Darkness and Light is an honest work and stunningly passionate. Kim Cornwall's spirit-infused poetry 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 the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and as a reference librarian.

For more information about these titles and many more, please visit uapress.alaska.edu or call 800-621-2736.

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