The Alaska Literary Series (University of Alaska Press) Presents: Spirit Things

A group of essays exploring the key histories, myths, and science of objects on a fishing boat in Alaska by Lara Messersmith-Glavin and illustrated by Roger Peet

“Lara Messersmith-Glavin’s essays are concurrently thrilling and insightful… I used to be awestruck.” —Liz Prato, creator of Volcanoes, Palm Timber, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai’i

PORTLAND, Ore., Might 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Spirit Issues recounts tales of fishing, household, synesthesia, storytelling, gender, and violence in opposition to the backdrop of the Alaskan fishing business. Every essay follows an object by way of its historical past, drawing collectively the fragile strains that hyperlink issues by way of their making and use, their genesis and evolution, and the methods they acquire significance in a person’s life. 

“The sensual pleasure of Messersmith-Glavin’s language interweaves along with her capacious non secular inquiry; her lithe prose is an absolute delight. This luminous, magnificent challenge is a present [she] has introduced us from the ocean, filled with awe and wonder, salt and light-weight.” –Alicia Jo Rabins, creator of Divinity College

Fishing nets, a favourite knife, or the bioluminescent gleam of seawater in a twilight that by no means actually grows darkish—this stuff present an entry level for meditations on the methods during which patterns, magic, and surprise overlap. Spirit Issues are these mundane objects that supply new insights into the world on nearer consideration.

Lara Messersmith-Glavin is a author, educator, and performer primarily based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in Throughout the Margin, Nonetheless Level Arts Quarterly, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Radiant Voices: 21 Feminist Essays for Rising Up, Anchored in Deep Water: the Fisherpoets Anthology, and elsewhere. She was awarded the AtM 2018 Greatest Nonfiction Award, and the Chinalyst Award for Greatest Journey Writing in 2008.

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Spirit Issues by Lara Messersmith-Glavin
Publication date: April 2022
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60223-455-0
202 pages; 17 illustrations
EISBN: 978-1-60223-456-7
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6 x .07 x 9 inches; 9.6 ounces

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