Drama, Fiction and Poetry
Tanker on the Rocks or the Great Bad Friday Fish Spill of '89 by Dick
Reichman (63 pp, 4 illustrations) ISBN 1-877900-02-8 $7.95
Tanker on the Rocks is a hilarious spoof on the events surrounding
the 1989 Exxon-Valdez oil spill. Life in the small fishing village of "Lopeez"
Alaska is turned on its head when the drunken captain of a fish oil tanker
spills millions of gallons of fish oil the local beaches. No one is spared
the edge of Reichman's sharp wit - neither the oil companies, environmentalists,
townspeople nor the government bureaucracies.
Valiant Lancer of Prince William Sound by Athena Lethcoe
(94 pp, 14 illustrations) ISBN 0-9613146-7-2, $7.95.
Valiant Lancer won the Dog Writer's of America award for
best fiction in 1989. This novel in the tradition of Albert Payson Terhune
mingles the story of a young girl's love for her collies with the exciting
drama of a battle for survival in the harsh Alaskan wilderness.
". . . a poignant novel for young adults and all those who enjoy
a good dog story. Well-told." Karen Weiland, Director, Valdez Consortium
Library.
Habitats of Change - Alaskan poetry by Nancy Lethcoe (32 pages) ISBN
1-877900-11-7. $7.95
Nancy Lethcoe's poetry has appeared in the Bedford
Review (University of London), The Mississippi Valley Review,
and The Wheelhouse Review. During the response to the Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill, several of her poems hung on the bulletin boards of Alaska legislators
and those in charge of the cleanup.
Her poems transcend their Alaskan setting and are noteworthy for their
surface simplicity yet underlying depth. This collection exhibits great
diversity of poetic styles.