LEADER 03130nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910790596803321 005 20230320060155.0 010 $a1-60223-158-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151376 035 $a(EBL)1820978 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000688219 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12259942 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000688219 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10776122 035 $a(PQKB)11656096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1820978 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10538017 035 $a(OCoLC)893740993 035 $a(OCoLC)778566617 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110956 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151376 100 $a20110830d2012 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe cormorant hunter's wife$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fby Joan Kane 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aFairbanks [Alaska] $cUniversity of Alaska Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (89 p.) 225 1 $aAlaska literary series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60223-157-5 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThis collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an In?upiaq Eskimo woman with family from King Island and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. The poems' syncopated cadences and evocative images bring to life the exceptional physical and cultural conditions of the Arctic and sub-Arctic that have been home to her ancestors for tens of thousands of years, while the poems' speakers refer to an indigenous identity that has become increasingly plural. The author's perspective as a Native person affords her unique insight into the relationship with place and self, which she applies in her co. 410 0$aAlaska literary series. 606 $aAmerican poetry 607 $aAlaska$2fast 607 $aAlaska$vPoesie 607 $aAlaska$vPoetry 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a811/.6 700 $aKane$b Joan$0992029 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790596803321 996 $aThe cormorant hunter's wife$93799214 997 $aUNINA