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Subject(s)

• American poetry [Browse]
• Alaska—Poetry [Browse]

Series

Alaska literary series. [More in this series]

Summary note

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an Iñupiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural conditions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic that have been home to her ancestors for tens of thousands of years, while the poems' speakers refer to an indigenous identity that has become increasingly plural. The author's perspective as a Native person affords her unique insight into the relationship with place and self, which she applies in her co.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

• The sunken forests
• Rote
• Legend
• Insomnia at north
• The designation
• Variable at prime
• Proper
• Stative
• On the border of speech
• Off course
• Ruins
• Declining the city
• A proposal
• Anchorage
• Placer
• Building the boats
• Exit Glacier
• Stray and error
• The history of two
• Ornament
• Ivu
• Clear cut
• And other ruins
• Laid in
• Antistrophic
• The prodigy
• At bridal veil rocks
• On eating before hunting
• The Greenland mummies
• Three masks
• Traveler's rest
• Variations on an admonition
• The relation
• Animal figurine
• Lost season
• The slate fields
• Variable at nightfall
• Withdraw
• Tributary
• The slip
• Nelson's curio
• Nix
• Five stops
• Fled to the inlanders
• Birth at Safety Sound
• The white night falling
• Haunt
• The cormorant hunter's wife
• Theories of migration
• Due north
• Dust in June
• Dingmiat.

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ISBN

• 9781602231580
• 1602231583

OCLC

• 893740993
• 778566617

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