This first collection by a talented Chicana Mestiza poet invokes her upbringing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Much of the work, some of it written as dramatic monologues, reflects her passionate interest in womens lives; he woman who longs to escape on the late night train; the deserted woman who raises Akitas, good-natured killers; the whore in the Fairbanks motel; the young widow walking home remembering her husbands chest crushed like an egg when a jack shifts. Other poems, like the title poem Reaching Destruction Bay, are deeply rooted in the harsh and dramatic landscape of Alaska. A manuscript...