Swimming with Fish and Other Animals

"Swimming with Fish and Other Animals" is a 42-page chapbook of poetry, essays and photographs by Patrick S. Dixon, an Alaskan commercial fisherman. The first section, 'Fish', is a fish hold full of poems and stories about his adventures on and around the waters of the Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The second section, 'Other Animals' describes events and moments in time about such subjects as the environment, adolescence, coping with disease and love. Mr. Dixon's writing is accessible and immediate. This collection of stories and poems is a jewel to own.

Author: Patrick S. Dixon
Publisher: Dixon Photography
Published: 06/30/2009
Pages: 46
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9780615292571

About the Author
PATRICK DIXON gillnetted for sockeye salmon on Cook Inlet, Alaska from 1977 to 1997. A photographer and writer, he has been published in 'The Smithsonian', 'Pacific Fishing', 'National Fisherman' and 'The Alaska Fisherman's Journal', among others. He has been a featured reader at the Fisher Poets Gathering for 13 years; he has also read at 'Kodiak Out Loud' in Kodiak, Alaska, and presented at 'Sea Stories at Ft. Flagler', Washington as well as at Panorama City in Lacey, Washington. He lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and two golden retrievers.

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