Blood Snow

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By dg nanouk okpik

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Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik is a poignant poetry collection exploring the gradual erasure of a homeland through the lens of environmental and cultural change. Written in a true Inupiaq voice, the poems trace themes of ancestry, identity, and kinship amid the encroaching impacts of methane, melting ice floes, and rising temperatures. Okpik employs an animist, Shamanistic perspective to delve into the complex relationships between people, animals, tradition, and history. The work reflects on her fraught connections to Anchorage, Alaska—a place of great natural beauty and painful devastation—examining how both the environment and selfhood shape each other in a dualistic reality.
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This collection will resonate with readers interested in Indigenous voices, environmental issues, and contemporary poetry. It suits those who appreciate richly layered cultural narratives and lyrical explorations of identity and place.

"American Book Award-winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, Blood Snow, 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."--Publisher's description.

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Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize

Listed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2022

Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in Poetry

American Book Award-winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, Blood Snow, 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.

Here, 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.

Okpik'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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950268641

Publisher: Wave Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Wave Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 209.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

dg nanouk okpik was born and spent much of her life in Anchorage, Alaska. She graduated from Salish Kootenai College with an AFA in Liberal Arts and Liberal Studies, and later attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, graduating with an AFA and a BFA in Creative Writing before receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast College. okpik has won the Truman Capote Literary Award, the May Sarton Award, and an American Book Award for her first book, Corpse Whale (University of Arizona Press, 2012).