Joan Naviyuk Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane was born in 1977 in Anchorage, Alaska. She is Inupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary's Igloo), Alaska. She earned a BA from Harvard and an MFA from Columbia University.

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by Joan Naviyuk Kane (b. 1977)

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Another day of heat-

strangers continue to wobble

across the horizon, bringing drought

when instead we should have deluge.

I steep snow-lichen in water I

drew from a lake

which has since gone dry.

At sea few understood me,

as though I induced a sickness

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The Quarterly Review . An unfavorable review of Endymion appeared there shortly before Keats's death of tuberculosis. Byron quipped that the review had killed him (jibing at Keats's famous sensitivity) and wrote this parody of the nursery rhyme "Who Killed Cock Robin? in a letter to his friend John Murray:"Who Kill'd John Keats?"

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