Monday, July 12, 2010

Breaking Point


Book: Hollow Out, Kelsea Habecker

Dealing with a relationship pulling apart while living in a small village in the Artic is the driving force behind Kelsea’s book, Hollow Out. Images of the Alaskan landscape fill her poems: whales throwing themselves onto rocky beaches to scrape barnacles off, patches of hair on a caribou skeleton after wolves have moved on, and women collecting salmon berries that they will carefully dole out over the long winter.


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