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To: epicure who wrote (4983)	4/7/2005 11:33:01 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) of 51729

I'll look into redfish's recommendations. Thanks for the tip. My recommendations are off the mainstream, but they are very good reading experiences. As I've said, I like fiction writers who are first poets. Poets hit hard. I apologize for the macabre subject matter of my recommendations. If you are able to transcend that, the writing will reward you. Sheila Nickerson, poet laureate emeritus of Alaska wrote one of the finest non-fiction books I've ever read. "Disappearance: A Map: A Meditation on Death and Loss in the High Latitudes" I witnessed by being "in country" when most of the events in this book occurred. Reading it took me into a kind of reverie. That I think is the mark of only the best writing. Here's an excerpt from a review on amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156004984/qid=1112930721/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8984818-9400120?v=glance&s=books Sheila Nickerson, a Juneau resident who was the state's poet laureate from 1977 to 1981, has taken up the challenge. The book is a history and a memoir. The history she reports is full of dangerous projects and unexplained disappearances. She dedicates long passages to great vanishings in the far north, from the! Franklin Expedition of the 19th century to congressmen Nick Begich and Hale Boggs in the early 1970s. But mostly Nickerson reports smaller vanishings: An old man gets off a ferry in Juneau and is never heard from again. A young man walks up a heavily-travelled trail and vanishes. A colleague disappears on a flight:

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