Tramping Solo

Fred Rosenblum is not going to let us off easy. Hes the anti-romantic - a blue-collar poet and bus drivers son with an affinity for the Beats drug-induced poetic style. He saw combat in Vietnam returned home and took to the road destined for Alaska and positions as a deckhand on a commercial fishing boat and a day laborer at the Sitka Pulp Mill - jobs that would sustain him when he wasnt stoned out of his mind. Freds Alaska is not the nature writers Alaska forcing us to look at how things were in this country during the 60s and 70s. Its a road trip worth taking but dont expect to be comforted - do expect to be unable to put this book down. - Tom Sexton former Poet Laureate of Alaska whose latest collection is entitled Cummiskey Alley