Blood Snow
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 destabilizing 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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Blood Snow
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 destabilizing 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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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 destabilizing 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781950268634
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication date: 10/18/2022
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)

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).

Table of Contents

Contents

Forgrass

Choosing Inflorescence

Anthropocene Years

Early Morning Sky Blue Pink

Enforced Measures

Horizon at Duck Camp

Petrified Melt

A Glacial Oil World

Necklaced Whalebone

A Year Dot

Shaman Boy: Utqiagvik, Circa1878

Fate Map

Light Years of Humans

Spring Thaw

Hollow Hands

Whiteout Polar Bears

Ice Age Two

Polar Bear Lost

Man and the Little People

Fossil Fuel Embers

Frightening Acid Flakes

My Things

Twilight pain

In a Lock of Hair

Confluence

Crows Caw Echo Echo

It Cuts

NIL Ink & Paper

Mind Warp

Expedition Mars

Song of Blood Mosquito Dance

When the Mosquitoes Came

Found

I Want to Believe

Camouflage

Thrush’s Melody

Drum

Physical Thaw

Fuse

Dear Mommie, (I’m sick)

Skinny Boned Bear

Ernest’s Red Knots at Ikpikpuk River

Her New Moon Enigma

Atigiluk Armor

Warm Water Fish Moving In

When White Hawks Come

She Travels

Grave Posts

Oil Energy & Natural Gas

Blood Snow at Cambridge Bay

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