This Week in Reading: Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane I read this book and thought it would be about Alaska, and it was, but it also wasn’t the way I would have described Alaska. Or rather, I have spent the year since I left Alaska trying to find the right words to describe it, and I read this book hoping that Joan Naviyuk Kane would have already written them down for me. It is probably an unreasonable demand, for someone else to be able to articulate your own experience, and this book of poetry did not do it, but it did articulate her own version of Alaska in a way that was concise and deft and beautiful.
a small practitioner of earth
a small practitioner of earth
a small practitioner of earth
This Week in Reading: Hyperboreal by Joan Naviyuk Kane I read this book and thought it would be about Alaska, and it was, but it also wasn’t the way I would have described Alaska. Or rather, I have spent the year since I left Alaska trying to find the right words to describe it, and I read this book hoping that Joan Naviyuk Kane would have already written them down for me. It is probably an unreasonable demand, for someone else to be able to articulate your own experience, and this book of poetry did not do it, but it did articulate her own version of Alaska in a way that was concise and deft and beautiful.