Alaska by Brod Bagert

Alaska by Brod Bagert

Strap on your imaginary backpack and step onto the path of an Alaskan adventure that will take you over the tundra, past the glaciers, and into the heart and soul of a man discovering the strength and beauty of the land and of himself. Brod Bagert's Alaska rewards its readers with an intimate and varied view of a spectacular subject by combining the immediacy of an amusing journal with the reflection of poems by turns moody, funny and deeply moving. It tells the story of a middle-aged man on the side of a mountain, the story of a sea kayak afloat in the mystery of eternal ice - the story of civilization washed away by the magic of an ice-cold skinnydip - and in a quiet way it tells the story of a love which like the magnetic pole reaches across a continent to show the way home.

Bagert, Brod: - Poet Brod Bagert is the author of over eighteen books of poetry for children, young adults, and adults. A former lawyer and New Orleans City Councilman, Bagert penned his first poem as a favor to his daughter, who needed a poem to recite in a school program. Bagert realized that few poems written in children's voices were available, and so wrote one himself. Since then, he has helped change children's poetry in America, focusing on performance as well as the poem itself. According to Timothy Rasinski, a literacy instructor at Kent State University, Bagert's poems allow children to create art when they perform them. Since he is one of the few poets to truly write in the voice of a child, it's easy for students to use his material for expressiveness, Rasinski told the New Orleans Times Picayune in a feature on Bagert. The Picayune noted that part of Bagert's appeal to children was his ability to capture their swirling moods and emotions: Bagert's verses often feature the private emotions-raw, complex, humorous-of youthful characters he created.

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ISBN 13	9780996466523
ISBN 10	0996466525
Title	Alaska
Author	Brod Bagert
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brod Bagert Poetry DBA Juliahouse
Year published	2015-11-13
Number of pages	68
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