Author Description

Mystical and visual--Karla Linn Merrifield's latest volume of poems, Athabaskan Fractal, takes the reader on a monumental journey across the Far North of the American continent. Here is a collection that is surpassinglybeautiful. Here is a reverence for nature where lush descriptions abound. Here is life in all its extravagance and austerity conveyed in poems of intimate details of texture and form and set against the vast sweep of endless space from sea to shining sea. You'll quickly discover why Merrifield is widely regarded as a supreme observer of the Earth's majesty. Karla Linn Merrifield, a nine-time Pushcart-Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, has had over 700 poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 13 books to her credit, the most recnt of which is Psyche's Scroll, a book-length poem, published by The Poetry Box Selected in June 2018, her Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills Publishing) received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is assistant editor and poetry book reviewer forThe Centrifugal Eye. She is a member of Just Poets (Rochester, NY), the Florida State Poetry Society, the New Mexico Poetry Society, and The Author's Guild."In poems of intimacy and celebration, elegy andgenerous mythologizing, Karla LinnMerrifield's newbook is teeming with the 'minute particulars' of her Alaskan travels. Here you will find that the fir trees, the mists, the creatures, the stones themselves come lovingly alive. But in our 21st-century world of ecospheric drama and disarray, the 'field guide' reveries are shot through with the stark realities of our desecrating human footprint. Athabaskan Fractal will take you places that Frommer's and Lonely Planet can only dream of!"Ralph Black, Professor of English, TheCollege at Brockport (SUNY), and author of Turning Over the Earth