Ex Machina
$16Poems by Inupiaq poet Joan Naviyuk Kane. Perfect bound paperback. First edition, third printing.
Reviews:
The Boston Globe (by Nina McLaughlin)
Diode (by Jennifer Martelli)
Mom Egg Review (by Mindy Kronenberg)
Ocean State Review (by Michael McCarthy)
“‘What could not be vulnerable in such changing / light?’ asks Joan Naviyuk Kane's impeccable chapbook Ex Machina. The poems here are unsentimental and unsparing; they tell stories of theft, erosion, and silencing, and they detail the depths of connection across time and space and the wish ‘for the sorrow to become something islandic.’ These new poems of brutal insight and electric lexicon further cement Kane's status as one of the most important poets writing today.”
— Natalie Shapero
“The poems in Ex Machina hold a fire and ferocity, the language stripped by pounding storms to its rawest and most refined form. A beating sense of presence, a means of finding ways. These are poems of saplings, sorrel, peregrine falcons, fox, fireweed, rhubarb, sourdock, and ice.”
— Nina McLaughlin