A Ladder of Cranes
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
60 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2015
Review Quotes
John Morgan | Juneau Empire
"Through precise language and observation, these poems suggest a profound way of living and responding freshly to each day. In addition, the book makes a powerful statement for the preservation of our threatened environment."
Dana Wilde | Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel
“Natural beauty is the essence of what you get from Tom Sexton. ‘The aim of all art,’ another poem wryly says, ‘… is to lead us toward light / even when the artist’s eye is cold or dark.’ These few tightly made lines of verse go to the essence of what philosophers and artists from all the ages have tried millions of words to explain. . . . These poems, like stars, offer extremely well-made flickers of light to whoever tends to look up at the sky rather than downward to the darkness.”
Valerie Lawson | Quoddy Tides
"Sexton is clearly at the top of his game in this book. One senses the hand of a master with pen poised ready to capture wolf, bird, landscape and people and
weave them into zen-like sketches."
weave them into zen-like sketches."
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