Dark Traffic

Zusatztext

<i>Dark Traffic</i> creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane’s work will see the arctic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny, violence, and systemic failures. These contexts catch the voice of the poems’ speakers, and we perceive the currents they create.<b>Excerpt from Dark Traffic</b>Consolation may turn out to be a guttural practice, after all, the small gesture of sound lodged deep before it glides without warning downward. There is nothing but the wind, a howl and dive where water is thrown over water and sown into it.

Autorenportrait

<b>Joan Naviyuk Kane</b>is Inupiaq, with family from King Island (Ugiuvak) and Mary’s Igloo, Alaska. She is the author of<i>The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife</i>,<i>Hyperboreal</i>, and<i>Milk Black Carbon</i>. In addition to serving as the 2021 Mary Routt Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism at Scripps College, she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the Department of English at Harvard University, is a lecturer in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University, and is faculty in the graduate creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Weitere Details