Corpse whale / Dg Nanouk Okpik ; foreword by Arthur Sze.
A self-proclaimed "vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial," poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-...
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Sun tracks ;
v. 73. |
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Table of Contents:
- Siqinq : sun January
- Ceprano man
- Izrasugruk Tatquq : February
- Imieauraq's ceremony of the dead
- Addled
- Paniqusiqsiivik : March
- Moon of the returning sun
- Riding Samna's gyrfalcon
- Mask of dance
- Agaviksiuvika Tatqiq : April
- The fate of Inupiaq-like kingfisher
- Drying magma near Illiamna
- Days of next yesterday
- Suvluravik Tatqiq : May
- Stereoscope
- Pearl serpents in trance
- Palmed hands foist dice
- Ninilchik
- Bess and raven
- Ibeivik: June birth time
- If oil is drilled in Bristol Bay
- No fishing on the point
- Salt cedar on Kokonee at Susitna River
- Demons in a Quonset hut
- Date: post glacial
- Inyukuksaivik Tatquq : July
- Little brother and serpent Samna
- Uqaqtaa god brings her/me to the next mind
- When frog songs change
- Cell block on Chena River
- The shaman palpates her/my body with voices
- Aqavirvik Tatqiq : August
- Under erasure
- The pact with Samna
- Tingivik Tatqiq : September moon
- Oil is a people
- Warming
- Her/my Arctic : corpse whale
- The weight of the arch distributes the girth of the other
- A violin in blue
- Nuliavik Tatqiq : October
- For the spirits-who-have-not-yet-rounded-the-bend
- The flying snow knife
- The sun, moon, and the dead raven
- Nippivik Tatqiq : November
- Whalebone wolf hunters dance
- Tonrat the watchmaker besows his wishes on her/me
- Tulunigraq : something like a raven
- She sang to me once at a place for hunting owls : Utkiavik
- In wainwright's musk oil spermary
- Her/my seabird Sinnatkquq dream
- Ukiuk : winter Siqinrilaq Tatqiq : December
- Chain link fence at the end of tin white life
- A ricochet harpoon thrown through time space
- A cigarette among the dead
- An Anatkuq's marionette of death
- Loose Inuit glossary.