Thu, Jun 29
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
dg nanouk okpik, Blood Snow
Poems of deep attention and prismatic intelligence, which render a collapsing biosphere from the perspective of an ancient Arctic culture rooted in community, survival and guardianship. -- 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Poetry
Date, Time & Location
Jun 29, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom. Register for zoom here.
Blood Snow can be purchased online from CW here or by calling the store (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the reading.
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, 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,…