Building fires in the snow : a collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry / Martha Amore, Lucian Childs, editors
- Additional Titles
- Collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry
- Published
- Fairbanks, Alaska : University of Alaska Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Amore, Martha and Childs, Lucian
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- Contents
- Winter country / Jerah Chadwick -- Luke / Rosemary McGuire -- Eight years ; Legacy ; Roughnecks and rakes one and all, the poet speaks to her subjects, Polar explorers ; Correcting the landscape ; Creation myth : periosteum and self ; Remodeling ; Concerning the proper term for a whale exhaling ; We all want to see a mammal ; August, McCarthy, Alaska / Elizabeth Bradfield -- Geology / Martha Amore -- Anniversary at the Evening Cafe ; Poem that begins in address to Nikola Tesla and ends up offshore ; Hemispheres ; Tired, I lie down in the parking garage ; Eve of the apocalypse / Susanna J. Mishler -- The go-between ; Black spruce / Lucian Childs -- Marlboros at dusk ; Aubade ; A woman's jewelry ; Hotel Reverie ; Lake Shore deer ; Come in from the sky ; In the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum ; Era of a happy heart ; Here / Amber Flora Thomas -- Fact-checking ; Anchorage epithalamium ; Moose are over-running the park and this makes me think of love ; The object towards which the action of the sea is directed ; The sleeping lady ; Conservation & rehabilitation / Alyse Knorr -- Worse disasters ; Trespass / Teresa Sundmark -- Fragments ; Pedazos ; In the bay ; En la bahía ; There was a time, she said ; Hubo un tiempo, ella dijo ; 19 crescent ; 19 crescent / Indra Arriaga -- Mondegreen ; Agni ; Koimesis ; Vacation / Egan Millard -- The voice of art nouveau / Zack Rogow -- Creep ; Shhhh-Be-Quiet / M.C. Mohagani Magnetek -- Misread signs ; Fireweed / Shelby Wilson -- Nest / Leslie Kimiko Ward -- What goes around comes over ; The capacity for true love expires at age 25 ; Rubia write a poem about light for a contest ; Dinner at her place ; Pearly everlasting / Amy Groshek -- Mountain man / Gabrielle Barnett -- Carrots, peas : in D minor ; Cupid's arrow / Teeka A. Ballas -- The trees tell the story / Sandy Gillespie -- Breakers / Morgan Grey -- Mirror, mirror / Laura Carpenter -- Model ; Earthquake Park ; M 4.0, 21 km S of Knik-Fairview / Kate Partridge -- What would Derby do? / Dawnell Smith -- The minister's wife ; Tales in fairyland ; Can I touch your Chinese hair? ; Before the world of men and boys, there was the land of girls / Vivian Faith Prescott -- Cold comforts ; Legacy ; Returnings ; Lesson of bread ; A sense of direction ; Stove ; The life to come / Jerah Chadwick -- Going too far / Mei Mei Evans.
- Summary
- "Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family--shopping, going out, working--to intimate encounters with Alaska's breathtaking natural beauty. At a time of great change and major strides in LGBTQ civil rights, Building Fires in the Snow shows us an Alaska that shatters stereotypes and reveals a side of Alaska that's been little seen until now"--
- Subject(s)
- Sexual minorities' writings, American
- Sexual minorities—Alaska—Literary collections
- American literature—Alaska
- Écrits de minorités sexuelles américains
- Minorités sexuelles—Alaska—Anthologies
- Littérature américaine—Alaska
- LITERARY CRITICISM—General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Gay Studies
- LITERARY CRITICISM—Poetry
- American literature
- Sexual minorities
- Literature (LGBTQ)
- Queer literature
- Minorites sexuelles—Dans la litterature—Anthologies
- Litterature americaine—Auteurs appartenant à des minorites—Anthologies
- Écrits de lesbiennes americaines—1970-.—Anthologies
- Écrits d'homosexuels americains—États-Unis—Alaska (États-Unis)—1970-.—Anthologies
- Écrits d'homosexuels americains—1970-.—Anthologies
- Alaska—Literary collections
- Alaska—Anthologies
- Alaska
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 1602233020 (electronic bk.)
9781602233027 (electronic bk.)
1602233012 (paperback)
9781602233010 (paperback) - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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