Benchmarks: New and Selected Poems 1963-2013

Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer's poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor's benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights--readers will find a new experience with each turn.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Published: 11/15/2013
ISBN: 9781602232099
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.09h x 5.61w x 0.68d