Johnny worries when his grandfather doesn't return home from checking his trap line. The elderly Indian has packed ample supplies on his snowmobile, but has stayed out far too long in the plummeting temperatures of the Alaskan winter. He has caught his leg in his own trap, several feet from his supp[...]
John Smelcer is a very considerable American poet, an astute observer of our contemporary scene. -- X. J. Kennedy -- These poems clear, rueful, courageous, sardonic, hard-lived, and backed up with a big heart and life-knowledge. -- Gary Snyder -- This is poetry as it should be, without a wasted wo[...]