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.
About the AuthorJoan 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
Book InformationISBN 9780822966623
Author Joan Naviyuk KaneFormat Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press