Blood Snow

Here, in a true Inupiaq voice, dg okpiks relationship to language is an access point for understanding larger kinships between animals, peoples, traditions, histories, ancestries, and identities. Through an animist process of transfiguration into a Shamans omniscient voice, we are greeted with a destabilizing grammar of selfhood. Okpiks poems have a fraught relationship to her former home in Anchorage, Alaska, a place of unparalleled natural beauty and a traumatic site of devastation for Alaskan native nations and landscapes alike. In this way, okpiks poetry speaks to the dualistic nature of reality and how ones existence in the world simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its environs.

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