A selection of the author's more significant and unique experiences traveling in Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia and Washington State.
When our children were in their teens and my wife and I began traveling further than the grocery store, we told each other that we'll travel now, noting our experiences, no matter how ordinary they may seem at the moment, because someday when aren't able, we'll have these memories. Alaska & Northwest is a selection of these memories.
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Original poems by Richard Lee "Dick" Harris offering impressions and memories of Alaska and Washington State, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. “Harris writes in the clear imagery of nature and the detail of a naturalist, and with subtle emotions.” —Don Duffy, former literary editor and poetry professor, Central Oklahoma University
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to