Alaska Literary

By: Jeremy Pataky

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Paperback | 15 March 2015 | Edition Number 1

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60 Pages

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Jeremy Pataky's debut collection measures familial and romantic love against the wildness of the far north and the self. Remote settings provide both a solace and challenge where the speaker's aloneness resists loneliness in full, and fully imagined, places. This is not a static vision, though; the present harkens back to a verdant but distant past. Nor is it a silent world. These poems reconcile the natural quiet and sounds of wilderness with the clamor of built environments. Pataky lives this contrast, migrating seasonally between Anchorage and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. These poems bridge the urban and rural, unifying them through an eros that is by turns fevered and serene. The book is haunted by all those the poet has loved, and they survive in the hidden places sculpted by language.

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"Emerson suggests that 'genius is the activity that repairs the decay of things.' Such genius is at work in Pataky's debut, Overwinter.... A book that makes of the heart's affections a myriad world, where presence and absence intertwine, and the poet is no more than faithful recorder of difficulty and wonder." (Dan Beachy-Quick, author of a A Whaler's Dictionary)

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