Böcker av Vivian Faith Prescott

"Eye sockets of a whale, salmonberries, rocky shoreline and seawall, crows and goldeneye, moon and tides, barnacles, dogwinkle, and limpet, krill and kelp, deer, even a mink... there is such rich imagery in Vivian Faith Prescott's Marigram that I feel physically present at her coastal Southeast Alaska fishcamp while reading these poems. Prescott is deeply immersed in her natural surroundings, and I applaud both her commitment to place and her exquisite writing." -Anne Coray, author of Late Fall Bucolics

Traveling with the Underground People is a hybrid collection of poetry, graphic poems, and prose, chronicling a North American Sámi diaspora. The Sámi are one people in four countries, and are the indigenous peoples of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula. At least 30,000 Sámi now live in North America. Vivian Faith Prescott's poems explore indigenous identity, transgenerational trauma, and the complexities of living far from one's cultural origins. The narrator is often mournful of this loss: "…how many grandmothers and aunties and cousins you can search for, back-and-forth in time, before the shoe-bands of your world weaken."

Filled with stories of family, food, and culture, and interwoven with personal recipes and photographs taken by the author, My Father's Smokehouse folds the reader into a beautiful island landscape.The smokehouse at Mickey's Fishcamp holds more than fish. It is filled with traditions, memories, and stories of a thriving Southeast Alaskan lifeof a family's perseverance, of the wisdom of Smi and Tlingit cultures, and of respect for Elders and their knowledge of the natural world.Mickey's Fishcamp is named after three generations of Prescott fishermen who commercially fished the waters of the Inside Passage, and is located near one of the oldest Tlingit settlements in Wrangell, Alaska. Here, next to the rainforest and sea, author Vivian Faith Prescott has found her place in the world. She is a student and teacher of the natural environmentharvesting spruce tips, berries, sea lettuce, and goose tongue and processing salmon, halibut, and hooliganwho combines traditional practices with modern knowledge.Heartwarming and introspective, My Father's Smokehouse tells one woman's stories of Traditional Knowledge that is learned and passed on, from one generation to the next.