New from Persea Books: Approaching Ice: Poems by Elizabeth Bradfield.
About the book, from the publisher:
Finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American PoetsVisit Elizabeth Bradfield's website.
This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures — Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspectives and her own, Elizabeth Bradfield relays the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach the earth's least-hospitable regions.