Description: Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Arthur Sze Winner of the 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation Hyperboreal leverages the power of language and lyric as its poems contend with issues of Inuit cultural and biological extinction.
Review Quotes: I am mesmerized by these poems, their sonorous pathways across time and place; how they absorb and let me linger awhile in their stark beauty. Joan Kane has created a genuine indigenous poetic, irreducible, a point of reorigination and new beginnings. Hyperboreal will be remembered and celebrated.--Sherwin Bitsui