Alaska, The Great Country

A doorway to the early north, a lyric map of ice, coastlines, and the human heart. Alaska, The Great Country gathers Ella Higginson's nation-tilting verse into a fresh light, inviting readers to walk the edge of a vast, untamed landscape. This poetry collection illuminates frontier life and the Alaska landscape with a precise, musical attention to nature imagery and the rhythms of the pacific coast. Higginson's lines braid the ache of the Alaskan frontier era with enduring human questions, ...