A terrific new book has just been published: THE ANTARCTIC: FROM THE CIRCLE TO THE POLE — Photographs by Stuart D. Klipper. Stuart is my Antarctic friend & mentor who has been to the ice multiple times, five times through the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers program. Minnesota Public Radio ran a short segment announcing Stuart’s new book, for which they interviewed Stuart (and me!). Here is a link to the MPR website, featuring audio of the interview as it aired yesterday morning, a text version of the same, and 8 photos from Stuart’s new book.  There’s also an audio file of me reading one of my Antarctic poems (“Human, considering the Polar Plateau”).

Picturing the Cold
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/03/picturingthecold/

Here’s a link to Stuart’s new book, on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Antarctic-Circle-Pole-Guy-Guthridge/dp/0811862291/

PS: Rumor has it that Stuart’s new book is mentioned in the newest issue of Oprah’s “O Magazine” with a blurb & a photo!  Oprah says:  get your Christmas shopping done early!!

K.

Pelky Barn at Sundown

Fog – Dawn
Sun rising behind an old apple tree.

Fog – Dawn
Warm morning light illuminates a “Wolf River Apple Tree” south of Empire, MI.

Dawn, Tweddle Farm
Mid-October dawn light makes the old silos glow as if made of gold.

Ghost Wood
Graffiti carved into the trunk of a “ghost tree” (a forest buried by a moving sand dune in the distant past — and now re-exposed as the dune continues to move).

Magnified details
These mock-ladybugs began to invade my farmhouse during mid-October.

Sleeping Bear Dunes: Glen Haven

The shoreline of east of Sleeping Bear Point, sketched at twilight on a perfect, hazy-balmy October day.

Sleeping Bear Dunes: Trespasses in the Dunes Complex
These “paths” are social trails through the sand dunes. The first damage started years ago, but whenever I viewed this scene I’d see another few sets of tracks…

Sleeping Bear Dunes: Tweddle Farm
The Tweddle Farm (where I lived during my residency) were as brilliant as the scarlet maples.