tender gravity
tender gravity charts a course of love, loss, and solace in time spent rooted in the more-than-human world. With praise poems echoing Mary Oliver, and with expansive inclusivity reminiscent of Walt Whitman, Marybeth draws us so close into her wild world that we, too, feel “that joy-sap rising.”
Among Wolves
Gordon Haber's Insights into Alaska's Most Misunderstood Animal
The crash of Gordon Haber's research plane in Denali National Park ended his life, his research, and his fierce advocacy for Alaska's wolves. In Among Wolves, a journey through Haber's 43 years with wolves, we witness individual wolf families' astonishing cooperation as well as the devastation wrought by hunting, trapping, and predator control. Reading Haber's journals, hearing stories from friends, we feel the passion and wonder that Haber never lost.
The Heart of the Sound
An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost
Re-released in paperback, The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost, charts the author's love affair with Prince William Sound from her first encounter as a newly transplanted resident, through the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, and toward a new connection, one forged from difficulty and disaster.
Crosscurrents North
Alaskans on the Environment
Coeditors Marybeth Holleman and Anne Coray bring together sixty-one poems and essays, all by long-time Alaska writers who share their admiration, awe, insights, and concerns about Alaska's wildlife and wild lands, and the environmental issues that affect them.
Alaska's Prince William Sound
A Natural History Guide
This introduction to the natural history of the Sound is part of the pocket guidebooks series from Alaska Northwest Publishing. Illustrated with maps and color photographs by some of Alaska’s best nature photographers, this compact book introduces readers to the Sound, from the geologic forces of icefields and glaciers, to the diversity of flora and fauna, to the human communities that ring the Sound.