{"title":"dg nanouk okpik","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDg Nanouk Okpik\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of identity and landscape through poetry deeply rooted in culture and memory. Her work immerses readers in vivid imagery that bridges the natural world with introspective reflection, often highlighting themes of resilience and heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVisitors to this collection can expect evocative writings that illuminate the intersections of tradition and contemporary experience, inviting a rich dialogue between past and present. Okpik’s voice is both tender and powerful, resonating with a unique clarity within the broader realm of Arts \u0026amp; Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blood-snow-by-dg-nanouk-okpik-9781950268641","title":"Blood Snow","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListed in \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e's Best Poetry Books of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the PEN\/Voelcker Award in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Book Award-winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eBlood Snow\u003c\/em\u003e, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion, in a multitude of encroaching methane, ice floe, and rising temperatures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, in a true Inupiaq voice, dg okpik's relationship to language is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals, peoples, traditions, histories, ancestries, and identities. Through an animist process of transfiguration into a Shaman's omniscient voice, we are greeted with a destabilising grammar of selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOkpik's poems have a fraught relationship to her former home in Anchorage, Alaska, a place of unparalleled natural beauty and a traumatic site of devastation for Alaskan native nations and landscapes alike. In this way, okpik's poetry speaks to the dualistic nature of reality and how one's existence in the world simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its environs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470110671084,"sku":"9781950268641","price":74.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781950268641-blood-snow.jpg?v=1775212728"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/dg-nanouk-okpik.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}