Hyperboreal

Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched by the expression of and reflection on the cultural strengths inherent to indigenous culture.

About the author

Joan Naviyuk Kane is Inupiaq, with family from King Island (Ugiuvak) and Mary's Igloo, Alaska. She is the author of The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, Hyperboreal, and Milk Black Carbon. In addition to serving as the 2021 Mary Routt Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism at Scripps College, she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the Department of English at Harvard University, is a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, and is faculty in the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Summary

Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in PoetrySelected by Arthur SzeWinner of the 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus FoundationHyperboreal leverages the power of language and lyric as its poems contend with issues of Inuit cultural and biological extinction.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Naviyuk Kane
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2013
• EAN: 9780822962625
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6262-5
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 212 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 116 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies