Joan Kane
The Cormorant Hunter's Wife
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NorthShore Press Alaska
Whiting Writers' Award winner Joan Kane's first collection of poems, The Cormorant Hunter's Wife, debuts from NorthShore Press.

"The Cormorant Hunter's Wife is a groundbreaking collection of poems made of one long breath. The breath is enough to carry you the distance it takes to fly to the moon and return in one long winter night. I have been looking for the return of such a poet. Joan Kane crafts poems as meticulous as snowflakes. She is visionary and the poems carry this vision with solid grace." Joy Harjo

"These poems are original, unsentimental, plain, and mysterious. There is something of Lorine Niedecker's Wisconsin, and something of Willa Cather's Nebraska or New Mexico in Joan Kane's Alaska. And something more, "on the border of speech," which yet gives us a new sense -- or maybe retrieves an old sense-- of experience. Sometimes, in these poems, description, and what we cannot quite find words for, underneath it, are enough; in fact, more than we would have known how to ask for: a lost people -- a shaman's voice -- the voice of a glacier -- of a shell? 'In a room in which youre found at every margin / Forgetting you is nothing but a long discipline.'" Jean Valentine

These poems are much more than verbal constructs, though their language alone is enough to keep you reading. Joan Kane's mind spends much time with itself; her eye sees itself as part of the landscape, which in this collection is meticulously rendered, 'a bewilderment of white.' She does not find metaphors for life in the wilderness, but rather observes patterns of nature that life bears out. Hers is a voice without cultural or self-reference, a voice without verbal-technics -- as rare and stark as the main climatic idiosyncrasy of these poems, 'a year of two winters.'" Priscilla Becker
The Cormorant Hunter's Wife
2009
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The Cormorant Hunter's Wife
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NorthShore Press Alaska

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University of Alaska Press
The cormorant hunter's wife
2012
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The cormorant hunter's wife
Joan Kane
Alaska literary series, 2nd ed., Fairbanks, Alaska, 2012
Alaska literary series, 2nd ed. , Fairbanks, Alaska, 2012
University of Alaska Press

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