Pitt Poetry #: Dark Traffic

Poems

Pitt Poetry #: Dark Traffic
Joan Naviyuk Kane
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28 Oct 2021 US
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9780822966623
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Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane' s work will see the artic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny, violence, and systemic failures. These contexts catch the voice of the poems' speakers, and we perceive the currents they create.

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"Oscillating between presence and absence, mother, daughter, woman, inhabiting the ' rift into language and grit, ' Kane reveals the ways we are made and unmade and made again. Dark Traffic is the poet at her most vulnerable--and most powerful. " --Abigail Chabitnoy, author of How to Dress a Fish "Whether by intellect shot through with feeling, or feeling sharp with intellect, Joan Naviyuk Kane' s Dark Traffic is a vigorous account of [Cold War] communication systems, complicity, and [self] inquiry. Rich with experimentation and a clear ethic of attentiveness, Dark Traffic is an indomitable, resonant book. " --Shara Lessley, author of The Explosive Expert' s Wife "A brutal and beautiful book whose poems strain the lyric through concrete and confessional modes, translation, and unforgettable evocations of land and people burdened with--but not defined by--the legacies of colonial atrocity. Dark Traffic is a ravishing achievement--one of our best poets, at the height of her powers. " --Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood
Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of The Cormorant Hunter' s Wife, Hyperboreal, and The Straits. Her awards include the Whiting Writer' s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the American Book Award, the Alaska Literary Award, and fellowships from the R
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ISBN-13: 9780822966623
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 88

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