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Milk Black Carbon
Milk Black Carbon is at once a brilliant work of lyric art and a decoding of knowledges written 'in the dark cursive of a wolf/circling on sea ice.' Kane's is a vertiginous sensibility, chiseled into language in a precarious time, as the rising seas 'rephrase us.' She writes in English and Inupiaq Eskimo, toward a horizon of radical futurity, against nostalgia, with awareness that there is no turning back. This is a twenty-first century poetry, urgent, necessary, and of its time.
about the author
Joan Naviyuk Kane’s previous books of poetry include The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife, Hyperboreal, Milk Black Carbon, and Dark Traffic in addition to the chapbooks The Straits, Sublingual, A Few Lines in the Manifest, Another Bright Departure, Ex Machina and & all the ones who chose to leave her. Her edited volumes include The Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 Anthology, Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic, and the forthcoming Colonialism and the Environments: Past, Presents, Futures. A Guggenheim Fellow, Radcliffe Fellow, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellow, and Whiting Award and Paul Engle Prize recipient, she’s a 2025 United States Artists Fellow based in Oregon, where she’s an associate professor at Reed College.
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