Corpse whale / / Dg Nanouk Okpik ; foreword by Arthur Sze

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953491603321
• Autore: Okpik Dg Nanouk
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8165-9936-X; 1-299-19211-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 101 p
• Collana: Sun tracks : an American Indian literary series ; ; v. 73
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetti: Inuit poetry; American poetry - 21st century; Alaska Poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Arthur Sze -- Siqinq: Sun January -- Ceprano Man -- Izrasugruk Tatqiq: February -- Imieauraq's Ceremony of the Dead -- Addled -- Paniqsiqsiivik: March -- Moon of the Returning Sun -- Riding Samna's Gyrfalcon -- Mask of Dance -- Agaviksiuvika Tatqiq: April -- The Fate of Inupiaq-like Kingfisher -- Drying Magma Near Illiamna -- Days of Next Yesterday -- Suvluravik Tatqiq: May -- Stereoscope -- Pearl Serpents in Trance -- Palmed Hands Foist Dice -- Ninilchik -- Bess and Raven -- Ibeivik: June Birth Time -- If Oil Is Drilled in Bristol Bay -- No Fishing on the Point -- Salt Cedar on Kokonee at Susitna River -- Demons in a Quonset Hut -- Date: Post Glacial -- Inyukuksaivik Tatqiq: July -- Little Brother and Serpent Samna -- Uqaqtaa God Brings Her/Me to the Next Mind -- When Frog Songs Change -- Cell Block on Chena River -- The Shaman Palpates Her/My Body with Voices -- Aqavirvik Tatqiq: August -- Under Erasure -- The Pact with Samna -- Tingivik Tatqiq: September Moon -- Oil is a People -- Warming -- Her/My Arctic: Corpse Whale -- The Weight of the Arch Distributes the Girth of the Other -- A Violin in Blue -- Nuliavik Tatqiq: October -- For the Spirits-Who-Have-Not-Yet-Rounded-the-Bend -- The Flying Snow Knife -- The Sun, Moon, and the Dead Raven -- Nippivik Tatqiq: November -- Whalebone Wolf Hunters Dance -- Tonrat the Watchmaker Bestows His Wishes on ; Her/Me -- Tulunigraq: Something Like a Raven -- She Sang to Me Once at a Place for Hunting Owls: Utkiavik -- In Wainwright's Musk Oil Spermary -- Her/My Seabird Sinnatkquq Dream -- Ukiuk: Winter Siqinrilaq Tatqiq: December -- Chain Link Fence at the End of Tin White Life -- A Ricochet Harpoon Thrown Through Time Space -- A Cigarette Among the Dead -- An Anatkuq's Marionette of Death -- Loose Inuit Glossary -- Acknowledgments.
• Sommario/riassunto: A self-proclaimed "vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial," poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers.