Roughly For the North by Carrie Ojanen.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ojanen, Carrie, author.

Series:

• The Alaska Literary Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry.
• American poetry--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 pages)

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks, AK : [2018] University of Alaska Press,

Summary:

“I wish I were a dancer to let lines fall like that. / But I am dressed like you, roughly for the North.” Roughly for the North is a tender and complex portrait of an Arctic and sub-arctic world. Full of lush language and imagery, each poem is an act of devotion and love to one’s family and land. Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen weaves a moving portrait of grief, of the rippling effects of historical trauma on succeeding generations, of resilience in the face of adversity, of respect for the Alaska Native traditions she grew up in. With vivid imagery, she draws the reader into Northern life, where the spiritual and industrial collide. She uses formalism and lyrical free verse to explore the natural world and to conjure a place of staggering beauty that hides death around every corner. A member of the Ugiuvamiut tribe, Ojanen grounds her work in a web of familial relationships. Especially important is her connection with her grandparents, members of the last generation to make their home on Ugiuvak (King Island), Alaska. With heartfelt verse, her poems reflect the staggering cultural changes her grandparents faced and the way traditional art forms continue to unite her community and help them connect to the past.

Contents:

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Blue Cabin
• All her Breath is Gone
• The Soul's Silver Side is Speckled Black
• AAKA
• The Ghost of the Blind Berry Picker
• AQPIK
• Break the Dishes over her Barrow
• Hagiography
• Sixth Saint
• Fifth Saint, Sixth & Seventh
• Third Saint
• The Berry Picker II
• Second Saint
• First Saint
• First Saint (without Sound)
• Remembering the Angels' Invisible Bodies
• Caribou
• Motion
• The Soul is a
• Someday this may apply to you too, so pay Attention.
• The Seafood Plant
• There is a Certain Slant of Light
• It's Hard to Write on a Box
• Helicopter Week at BLM
• Moose hunt Clogyrnach
• Catherine at Ten,
• Another kind of Love Poem
• Let the Buntings be our Valentine
• Sestina
• He Trimmed the Apple Tree.
• Imiqmuit, from the Water,
• Tiimiaq, Something Carried,
• Catherine, at 18
• Roughly for the North
• Epilogue
• Afterlife, III

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781602233638
• 1602233632

OCLC:

1020292574