Review: Latest ‘Alaska Quarterly Review’ is packed with great reading
. In “Love Is What This Is” a woman watches flocks of storm petrels lift off the ocean, then looks to the man wanting to share in what she sees. Love suffuses the entire poem — the scene, the birds and all they suggest, the woman and the man.delivers more of that love. The main character, Emma Elisa, is an artist giving a Day of the Dead party, with altars, marigolds, food and friendship filling her yard somewhere near the Mexican border.
Other stories involve an American merchant marine and a “bar girl” in the Philippines, a young girl whose friend lives in a violent home, an addicted woman trying to be a good mother, brothers learning to swim, a boy on a 1920s ranch trying to learn to be a man, a family facing one member’s disability, a woman caring for the last living elephant, and a teenage girl falling in love with opera and into confusion about other forms of love.
This latest “AQR” is one to spend time with, reading and rereading, absorbing the many voices, the beautiful language, the ways of seeing and appreciating our world.Nancy Lord is a Homer-based writer and former Alaska writer laureate. Her books include "Fishcamp," "Beluga Days," and "Early Warming." Her latest book is "pH: A Novel."
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