Constantly suffering from the cold, Sam makes his companion on the Arctic trail promise to cremate him when he dies, which the companion does--to his great surprise.
Verses chronicling the Klondike gold rush and immortalizing the colorful characters of the Yukon Territory, chosen from the author's earlier collections "The spell of the Yukon" and "Ballads of a Cheechako".
Presents criticism on the work of twelve major American and Canadian women poets active since 1930, including May Swenson, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.