Bone Strings [Paperback]

Anne Coray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2005

Poems exploring the physical and emotional landscapes of Alaska.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Anne Coray is keenly observant, sensitive without swooning, and conveys both the loveliness and the brutality of her world. --Rosellen Brown

Bone Strings contains some of the finest poems I have read by an Alaskan poet in recent years. --John Haines

Cool as the moon, her poems shine a clear light on unforgiving landscapes, and on tough truths of the heart. --Stephen Kessler

About the Author

Anne Coray lives at her birthplace on remote Qizhjeh Vena (Lake Clark) in southwest Alaska. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Poetry, Seneca Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Rattapallax, among others. She has been a finalist with Carnegie Mellon, Water Press & Media and Bright Hill Press, as well as for the Frances Locke Memorial Award and the Rita Dove Poetry Award. For several years she worked for the Bilingual Program in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley north of Anchorage. She lives with her husband, Steve, and her dog, Zipper.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Scarlet Tanager Books; Later printing edition (July 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967022495
• ISBN-13: 978-0967022499
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,203,847 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True North, October 12, 2005

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Ruth Holzer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bone Strings (Paperback)

The poems in Bone Strings take the reader on a rewarding journey into the distances of the Alaskan wilderness and the inner privacy of the self. Anne Coray views history, nature and personal experience with a unique consciousness, refreshingly un-self-absorbed. This is poetry worth reading and re-reading for Coray's evocative images and sure sense of language.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ranks with the best, August 28, 2005

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Are Strom - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bone Strings (Paperback)

The setting for this collection of poems is Alaska, and like the landscape expect to be stunned by powerful images. Though there are real gems throughout, read it, if just for poems like 'Ivory', 'Rhythmics' or 'Waiting'. The themes are universal, and the poetry as good as it gets.

5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of free-verse poetry reflecting upon seasonal beauty and the ever-changing rhythms of nature, January 12, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bone Strings (Paperback)

Alaskan-born poet Anne Coray presents Bone Strings, a collection of free-verse poetry reflecting upon seasonal beauty and the ever-changing rhythms of nature. A handful of poems have a brief, one-sentence introduction referring to their inspiration or dedication, from "The Ptarmigan", written in response to the tragic accidental shooting of a well-known Anchorage doctor, to "Mail Run", a meditation upon those who carried mail across the snows via dog team. A wistful evocation of the many facets of Alaska's soul. "Divested": The mist, / a perfume of absence, / walks through the day's largess. // I have nothing. / No tonic of bright bells, / or resound of iron. // A casket meant for pearls / drifts on the mute wind.