The cormorant hunter's wife : poems / by Joan Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Joan Naviyuk

Series:

Alaska literary series.

Alaska literary series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Alaska.

Alaska--Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks [Alaska] : University of Alaska Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781602231580

1602231583

OCLC:

893740993