Schandelmeier, Linda, authorUniversity of Alaska Press, publisher2022-04-252022-04-252018https://hdl.handle.net/10217/234818An Alaska memoir told in poems.--Provided by publisher.Country of Strangers -- Driving by the Old Homestead -- Mountains Like Ribs -- The Homesteader's Wife -- Today Is All They Have -- Baking Lessons -- Momma Said -- The Winter Meat -- My Father Hilling Potatoes -- Girl Made of Fog -- Summer Untethered -- Hum -- Leda -- Horse Called Charlie -- Along the Print -- Sleepwalking toward Myself -- Stealing the Strawberries -- No One Asks about the Bridge -- In the Playhouse -- Sleeping the Chickens -- Childhood, Swallow -- Ice's Apprentice -- December's Tree -- Survival Tactics -- Painting the Stones -- The Button Box -- Above the Garage -- The Card Shark -- Because Music Is Green -- Neighbors -- The Earth Is Breakable -- I Watch the Hired Men Pick Potatoes -- Our Father Leaving Us -- Night Sounds -- He's Talking -- Someone Should Have Kicked the Pedophiles off Our Place -- Tower Bells -- Leaving for the University -- Whole -- Her Garden -- May, at My Father's Burial -- To Dust -- On Being Disinherited -- Coming Out of Nowhere.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Poets, American -- BiographyPoets, American -- BiographyHome -- Alaska -- PoetrySchandelmeier, Linda, 1949-Frontier and pioneer life -- Alaska -- PoetryAlaska -- PoetryTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.