The Cormorant Hunter's Wife: Poems

by Joan Naviyuk Kane

This collection of poetry is inspired by the author's lineage as an I 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602231575
• ISBN13: 9781602231573
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Alaska Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"