Effigies - An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim, 2009

dg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Mahealani Perez-Wendt are four exceptional emerging poets. Their Pacific Rim relationship invited opportunity to publish these four chapbooks in one collected volume. Like effigy earthworks, stone, and bone carvings, the books included in this volume portray representational imagery as testimonies to the stunning spirit, landscapes, and lives from which these poets derive. A significant statement as to the changing state of the world, this collection is a rich pleasure.

List of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Editor's Note
• In the time of Okvik
• d g nanouk okpik
• Mask of Dance
• In the time of Okvik
• Foist
• Ninilchik
• Date: Post Glacial
• Little Brother and Serpent Sedna
• Sinnaktuq
• There and Here
• Cell Block
• The Pact with Sedna
• Utkiavik: a Place for Hunting Owls
• Oil is a People
• Corpse Whale
• Palpate Voices
• For-the-Spirits-Who-have-Rounded-the-Bend iivaqsaat
• Spirit World
• Black Ice
• Cathy Tagnak Rexford
• Luis Gonzalez Palma Never Took a Picture Here
• Baleen Scrimshaw as 16 mm Film
• Inuit Print
• Kinetoscope
• The Negative
• The Ecology of Subsistence
• When Ivory Changes Color from the Oils in Your Skin
• Pre-Gunpowder
• Here
• With a Westwind
• Uncle Foot
• Baleen Corset
• A Caribou Skin Mask
• Scripture According to Sila
• Migration
• Bridge Passage
• What is Not Silence
• A Wind Drives Over the Waters
• Black Ice
• Return to the Kula House
• Brandy Nalani McDougall
• Po
• Huaka'i
• Haloa Naka
• Haumea
• Kumuhonua
• The History of This Place
• The Petroglyphs at Olowalu
• Lei Niho Palaoa
• Emma, 1993
• On Finding My Father's First Essay, San Joaquin Delta College, 1987
• How I Learned to Write My Name
• Ma'alaea Harbor, Father's Day
• The Salt-Wind of Waihe'e
• The Dream Of Kaha'ula
• Turns of Light, the Story of Your Birth
• Dirty Laundry
• Koa and the Burning of the Kula House
• Easter
• Return to the Kula House
• Cane Spider
• Back When We Lived with Ghosts
• Kukui
• Waiting for the Sunrise at Haleakal?
• Red Hibiscus in the Rain
• Synaptic Collisions
• Ho'ailona
• Ka 'Olelo
• Over and Over the Return, Mo'oku'auhau
• Papatuanuku
• Papahanaumoku
• Ma'healani Perez-Wendt
• Papahanaumoku
• Segmented
• Kalalani
• Bury Our Hearts at Wal-Mart, etc.
• Double Decker
• We Are Not the Crime We Are the Evidence
• Uprooting
• Calvary At 'Anaeho'omalu
• Nancy Kwan
• Anna at a Crossroads
• Huluhulu Bag
• Kipahulu
• No Steal
• Maile Never Miss
• Oblong Moon
• Biographical Notes

About the author

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke descends from moundbuilders and is of Cherokee, Huron, Creek, French Canadian, Lorraine, Portuguese, English, Scot, and Irish ascendants. She previously worked horses, fields, waters, and factories, now holds the Distinguished Paul & Clarice Reynolds Endowed Chair of Poetry & Writing at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Previous books include: Dog Road Woman (American Book Award); Off-Season City Pipe; Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer; and Blood Run (Salt Publications). Effigies is her seventh edited edition. dg nanouk okpik is an Alaskan Native, Inupiat -- Inuit from Anchorage, Alaska. She is a Cook Inlet Region, Inc. shareholder as an enrolled member of federally recognized Tribe. Her family resides in Barrow, Alaska. She has served as secretary on both the American Indian Higher Education Consortium Student Congress and the Student Senate at Salish Kootenai College. dg nanouk okpik is an MFA candidate of Stonecoast, USM. Cathy Tagnak Rexford is Inupiaq, French/German and English from Anchorage, Alaska. Most of Cathy's work is inspired by the unique view of the Indigenous peoples of Northern Alaska. She has worked extensively in Native education and language efforts as researcher, curriculum developer and graphic designer. Cathy has also worked on contemporary Native theater and film projects as an actor, producer and writer. Brandy Nalani McDougall is a poet of Hawaiian, Chinese and Scottish descent from the island of Maui. An award-winning poet, she has published in journals and anthologies throughout Hawai'i, the continental U.S. and the Pacific. Her first collection will be released in 2008. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Product details

• Authors: Brandy Nalani McDougall, Dg Nanouk Okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford
• Assisted by: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Editor)
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2009
• EAN: 9781844714070
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-407-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 211 g
• Series: Earthworks
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama