Echo of Ice Letting Go
- Author: LeMay, Julie
- Publisher: University of Alaska Press (2017)
- Book
- Literary Category: Poetry
- Pages: 112
- Cover Type: S - Softcover
- Dimensions: 6.000" x 9.000" x 0.300"
- Weight: 7.0oz
- ISBN-10: 1-60223-311-X
- ISBN-13: 978-1-60223-311-9
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Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay relates a personal story of the recurrence of cancer and interweaves it with an account of her son s struggle with addiction. In a world of so much pain, her poems ask, how can we find meaning? The answer, often, is nature: among spruce branches that whisper and the yellow joy / of warblers. Half-found poems that contain lines from John Muir's essays are arranged throughout the book like touchstones, while other poems invoke the spirit of Wordsworth. LeMay s voice is precise and clear, her lines musical and sonically rich, making this ambitious, wide-ranging book one that readers won t soon forget. Julie Hungiville LeMay was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, but has lived in Alaska s Matanuska Valley since 1978