The Rising And The Rain is Alaskan novelist John Straley’s first book of poetry. With a keen eye and self deprecating humor, he paints a portrait of the region he calls home: the Pacific Northwest and southeastern Alaska. Local at inception but universal in scope, Straley’s narrative poems encompass the personal and political. Sometimes finding humor and solace in the absurd, they always return to the abiding source of life along this wild stretch of the Pacific. The Rising And The Rain is a celebration of the cycles of rain, the seasons, and the many promises the earth always keeps.
