Research Catalog

Title

Hyperboreal / Joan Naviyuk Kane.

Author

Kane, Joan Naviyuk

Publication

Pittsburgh, Penn. : Univ Of Pittsburgh Press, c2013

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Details

Description

viii, 65 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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. It concerns King Island, the ancestral home of the author's family until the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs forcibly and permanently relocated its residents. The poems work towards the assembly of an identity, both collective and singular, that is capable of looking forward from the recollection and impact of an entire community's relocation to distant and arbitrary urban centers. Through language, Hyperboreal grants forum to issues of displacement, lack of access to traditional lands and resources and loss of family that King Island people-and all Inuit-are contending with.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Pitt poetry series.

Subject

• American poetry
• Alaska > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Poetry.

Indexed In (note)

• Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (February 15, 2020)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hyperboreal -- At Anaktuvuk Pass -- In a House Apart -- Akkumin Qanituq/Swift Descent -- Disappearer -- Fugato (1) -- Mysteries of Light -- Love Poem -- Gorge -- Mugnatunilana/I am not tired -- Intervale -- Drawn Together -- The Dissolve of Voices -- Fugato (2) -- Etch -- The Fire -- Ivory, Stomach, Bone -- Mother Tongues -- Force Majeur -- On Either Side -- For the Man with Sealfinger -- Time and Time Again -- Craft -- In Long Light -- Looking Through -- Games of Strength -- Field Notes -- Fugato (3) -- Procession -- Maliktuk -- Composition with Transformed Birds -- The Orphan Girl -- Fugato (4) -- Rare Earth -- Nunaqatigiit -- Fugato (5) -- Rete Mirabile -- Innate -- Ilu -- Ugiuvak/King Island.

ISBN

• 0822962624
• 9780822962625

OCLC

• 847837290
• SCSB-12182189

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library