Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of the poetry collections
The Straits, The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, and Hyperboreal. She
received a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry,
the USA Projects Creative Vision Award, an American Book Award, the
Alaska Literary Award, and fellowships from the Rasmuson
Foundation, Alaska State Council on the Arts, Alaska Arts and
Cultures Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and
the School for Advanced Research.
Milk Black Carbon is at once a brilliant work of lyric art and a
decoding of knowledges written 'in the dark cursive of a
wolf/circling on sea ice.' Kane's is a vertiginous sensibility,
chiseled into language in a precarious time, as the rising seas
'rephrase us.' She writes in English and Inupiaq Eskimo, toward a
horizon of radical futurity, against nostalgia, with awareness that
there is no turning back. This is a twenty-first century poetry,
urgent, necessary, and of its time.-- "Carolyn Forche"
Her latest book of poetry contains themes of motherhood and the
relationships between land and peoples, and ever present is her
unmatched mastery of form and language. . . . unique to Milk Black
Carbon is the palpable sense of urgency throughout the poems.--
"Jen Rose Smith"
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