Dauenhauer, Richard: Benchmarks: New and Selected Poems 1963-2013

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University of Alaska Press, paperback Publication Date: November 15, 2013 Publisher Marketing: Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer's poet ry 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. Show more