New book from an Alaska Native poet is a lyrical, forceful look at a changing culture
Joan Naviyuk Kane’s fourth poetry collection, “Milk Black Carbon,” is just out in the distinguished series issued by the University of Pittsburgh Press. An Inupiaq with family from King Island and Mary’s Igloo, Kane lives in Anchorage. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the prestigious Whiting Award, the Donald Hall Prize and fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation. According to Kane, her poems “transfer between self-portraiture and imaged representations of how difficult it is to repatriate oneself to an irrevocably changed homeland …”
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