New from Cirque Press

In the course of a lifetime, so much has changed in rural Alaska. Time has eroded the past ways of living; leaving in its place, a complicated straddling of the old and new.

Bates

Sandra Kleven

Michael Burwell Editors & Publishers

The author takes us through the life and hard times of Kim-boy. From family loss to memories gained, Kimboy struggles to find his way and make sense of both time and place.

Samuel Crow

I could very well have known Kimboy. I grew up in a town on the Kuskokwim at about the same timeperiod. I can attest that Sky Changes brings to the reader a sliver of the life among the Yup’ik during this time.

Dr. John Weise

SKY CHANGES On the Kuskokwim concerns the life of a riverine, Yup’ik Eskimo, growing up on the Kuskokwim River. This is the ninth largest river in the United States; a river most people, even many in Alaska, have never even heard about. It is somewhat of an idyllic account of Kim-boy’s life, but it includes harsh realities that are all too frequent occurrences for those living in this unfamiliar land.

Water the Rocks Make by David

McElroy

Available on Amazon and at local venders. $16.95

David McElroy is a retired commercial pilot of small planes in the Arctic and a former smokejumper, fisherman, taxi driver, and English teacher. He is the author of four books of poetry, Making It Simple, Mark Making, Just Between Us, and Water the Rocks Make. He has been published in regional and national journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Cirque, Anteaus, Poetry Northwest, and Chicago Review. In 2016 he was the recipient of the Andy Hope award for poetry.

Water the Rocks Make

by David McElroy Alaska Literary Series University of

Alaska Press

The poems of Water the Rocks Make commit into words the turbulence of emotion and thought stirred up by life’s events: family trauma, psychiatric instability, the legal system, the death of a loved one, identity, cultural displacement, work, loss, creativity, and through everything, love.