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In Bridge Street at Dusk, Tom Sexton returns to a place he never really left, the city that does not change and always changes. He sees the city in distinctive subtle light to which a native is attuned, a light all the more complex for being seen by one who has been long away.

When watching old men releasing their caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba or even willow catkins in Alaska, Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. Here we meet the wolf of Gubbio when he is old and lame and Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin centuries ago, but no matter where he takes us we always come back to the landscape and people of Alaska; to cloudberries in a marsh and a wedding in the village of Ninlichik where he held a crown of gold over the head of the bride. Sexton carefully notes it all in his familiar practice of traditional forms and free verse. The tensions of his formal influences, Chinese and European, force the reader to experience these spare lines and tight observations in new ways.

This all-new collection by former Alaska poet laureate smoothly blends his life in Maine, his years in Alaska, and his love of Chinese poetry—which has been a key influence on his work—into a lyrical fantasy that will enchant lovers of verse. These tightly rhythmic, compact eight-line poems demonstrate a rare deftness with—and an even more uncommon ear for—language, revealing poetic form to be neither a puzzle nor an accomplishment in itself, but a compositional tool and a spur to creativity.

Poetry. THE LOWELL POEMS is the sixth book of poetry from Tom Sexton, the former Poet Laureate of Alaska from 1995-2000. Sexton returns in his writings to his boyhood home Lowell, Massachusetts. Jay McHale, associate professor of English at Salem State College writes of Sexton's poetry: "His poetic images are like jagged ice floes from glacial droppings. They are deposits along the shore, moments of reflection: ice crystals; begot of winter; gone with the spring thaw; swept downstream by the ebb and flow of time, season, and memory. Their jagged strength and life--like the narrator's--a mere illusion in the fragile, temporal reality of seasonal comings and goings."

This new Handbook of Family Therapy is the culmination of a decade of achievements within the field of family and couples therapy, emerging from and celebrating the dynamic evolution of marriage and family theory, practice, and research. The editors have unified the efforts of the profession's major players in bringing the most up-to-date and innovative information to the forefront of both educational and practice settings. They review the major theoretical approaches and break new ground by identifying and describing the current era of evidence-based models and contemporary areas of application. The Handbook of Family Therapy is a comprehensive, progressive, and skillful presentation of the science and practice of family and couples therapy, and a valuable resource for practitioners and students alike.

These are poems of the natural world, of light and dark and the changing of the seasons. We find Tu Fu chanting a poem deep in the Alaska Range, a man who becomes a bear during his morning walk, a world of light carved from a piece of ivory, and walruses in their home beneath the ocean deciding if they will offer themselves to a hunter. Not all of the poems are set in Alaska. There are poems about growing up in a decaying mill town, the suicide of the poet's mother and how the past is always with us. However, Sexton returns again and again to the conviction that the world itself is sacred -- an ancient belief we need to recover.

With old favorites like the Story Valley Railroad Grade and the Ghost Town Trail as well as new additions like the Chester Valley Trail and the Mahoning Shadow Trail, this eighth edition contains over 1100 miles of trails. Each trail listing contains a photograph, historical description, trailhead directions (including new Pennsylvania interstate exit numbers), trail map, trail details, a local manager contact, and more.