Blood snow
(Book)

"Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, dg okpik{u2019}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{u2019}s omniscient voice, we are greeted with a destabilizing grammar of selfhood. Okpik{u2019}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{u2019}s poetry speaks to the dualistic nature of reality and how one{u2019}s existence in the world simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its environs."--,Provided by publisher.