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GUIDE TO URBAN REINDEER
Kate Partridge
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Guide to Urban Reindeer is a lyric prose sequence, an excerpt from a longer project that responds to photographs from the construction of the Alaska Railroad during the 1910s. Part ekphrasis and part archive, this project layers the federal experiments of settler life and agriculture in the North against life in contemporary Anchorage. The essay’s scope pulls in baby beauty contests and Alaskan carrots, as well as soundscapes and engineering. Of course, there is also a celebrity reindeer.
KATE PARTRIDGE is the author of Ends of the Earth. She is a graduate fellow at the University of Southern California.
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