02997nam 2200553 a 450 991046125890332120200520144314.01-60223-158-3(CKB)2670000000151376(EBL)1820978(SSID)ssj0000688219(PQKBManifestationID)12259942(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000688219(PQKBWorkID)10776122(PQKB)11656096(MiAaPQ)EBC1820978(Au-PeEL)EBL1820978(CaPaEBR)ebr10538017(OCoLC)893740993(EXLCZ)99267000000015137620110830d2012 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrThe cormorant hunter's wife[electronic resource] poems /by Joan Kane2nd ed.Fairbanks [Alaska] University of Alaska Press20121 online resource (89 p.)Alaska literary seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-60223-157-5 Table of Contents; One: Antistrophic; 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; Two: Otherwise, Sky; 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 SeasonThe Slate FieldsVariable 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; Tinmiat; Biographical NoteThis 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 coAlaska literary series.American poetryElectronic books.American poetry.811/.6Kane Joan992029MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461258903321The cormorant hunter's wife2270403UNINA