Lee Ribich: 3 books

Pacific Flyway is Lee’s fifth book of poetry and follows the familiar themes found in his first four books: The Lines That Connect Us, Moments like These, Stones in a River, and Spindrift. Pacific Flyway is another book of poetry featuring the Alaskan environment that, itself, inspires poetry. Southeast...

Spindrift Lean overboard; study the water. Watch the tide within the tide. Circles spin in the current, strong enough to double back against the flow. Small whirlpools course laterally, Not down. Drifting forward with the tide, Then back. Each spin gathers more drift: Stick of wood, Leg of crab, Tuft...

Stones in a River is a book of poetry. Some poems are influenced by news events too often gloom-laden. The Alaskan environment inspires other poems. Southeast Alaska is where mountains meet the all-important Pacific Ocean. Lives here, above and below the seas surface, are co-dependent and call for...