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Fresh, funny, and imbued with infectious energy, Northerny tells a much-needed and compelling story of growing up and living in the North. Here are no tidy tales of aurora borealis and adventures in snow. For Dawn Macdonald, the North is not an escape, a pathway to enlightenment, or a lifestyle choice. It's a messy, beautiful, and painful point of origin. People from the North see the North differently and want to tell their own stories in their own way, including about their experiences growing up on the land, getting an education, and struggling to find jobs and opportunities. Expertly balancing lyric reflection and ferocious realism, Macdonald busts up the cultural myths of self-interest and superiority that have long dominated conversations about both Northern spaces and working-class identities. Fresh, funny, and imbued with infectious energy, Northerny tells a much-needed and compelling story of growing up and living in the North.
• 1.
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• Roadside Wildflowers of the Northwest
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• 11 Conversations
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• 5 Ways of Shutting Up
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• Littlest
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• The 2nd Shortest Day
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• The Failure of Winter's Five-Year Plan
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• Quickness
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• Increase
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• Aperture
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• A Strange Request
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• Changelings
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• The Fungus Speaks
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• 2.
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• About the Author
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• Fire Water Asbestos Mold
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• Bird's Ten
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• Binaries (1)
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• Binaries (2)
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• The Kingfisher
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• Walking the Long Loop
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• ONLY GENIUS CAN SOLVE THIS PUZZLE
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• Transcribed on Leaves and Thrown into the Wind
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• A Boring Poem
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• 3.
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• Lately we've been talking
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• Our 80s was Iron Maiden
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• We are tasked to speak truth
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• Please Leave On
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• The Forts
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• Gun Etiquette
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• Charts
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• Apologies to a Mouse
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• Naturalist's Notebook. Backyard, July
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• In a Scrub Pine
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• At Hidden Lakes
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• The town filled up
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• There's a lot I can't talk about
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• 4.
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• Look at how we didn't know
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• Occupational classification schema
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• Every Yukoner owns the 1979
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• LongGone Outhouse Blues in 14 Lines
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• The One Tree
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• Wasp Summer
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• This Isn't the House
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• Chit Chat
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• There's only two stories
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• Acknowledgements"
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Fresh, funny, and imbued with infectious energy, Northerny tells a much-needed and compelling story of growing up and living in the North. "In Northerny, Dawn Macdonald tempers a poetic soulfulness with a comic's sense for absurdity and punch. These poems speak with smart humor and wit, linguistic delight, and honest observations spiked with confession, always with an ear, too, for what their poet can't say. Macdonald's take on born-and-raised life in the north avoids romantic quagmires with a well-cured settler colonial self-consciousness. Macdonald resists worn expectations in this fresh expansion of northern literature rich with voice, earned insight, and meaning." Jeremy Pataky, author of Overwinter "Dawn Macdonald's poetry is alive with curiosity and truth. She speaks in conversation at times soft and at times bitter, creating images from a reality that can be obscure yet familiar. Macdonald's singular work reveals the unromantic beauty of a storied northern world full of lichen, kingfishers, and dog hair. Her poems open new paths in poetry from the high latitudes. This work is a bright addition to any library." Ernestine Hayes, Alaska State Writer Laureate 2017-2018 "Northerny echolocates around the rural, urban, and more-than-human worlds with unflinching curiousity
• 1.
•
• Roadside Wildflowers of the Northwest
•
• 11 Conversations
•
• 5 Ways of Shutting Up
•
• Littlest
•
• The 2nd Shortest Day
•
• The Failure of Winter's Five-Year Plan
•
• Quickness
•
• Increase
•
• Aperture
•
• A Strange Request
•
• Changelings
•
• The Fungus Speaks
•
• 2.
•
• About the Author
•
• Fire Water Asbestos Mold
•
• Bird's Ten
•
• Binaries (1)
•
• Binaries (2)
•
• The Kingfisher
•
• Walking the Long Loop
•
• ONLY GENIUS CAN SOLVE THIS PUZZLE
•
• Transcribed on Leaves and Thrown into the Wind
•
• A Boring Poem
•
• 3.
•
• Lately we've been talking
•
• Our 80s was Iron Maiden
•
• We are tasked to speak truth
•
• Please Leave On
•
• The Forts
•
• Gun Etiquette
•
• Charts
•
• Apologies to a Mouse
•
• Naturalist's Notebook. Backyard, July
•
• In a Scrub Pine
•
• At Hidden Lakes
•
• The town filled up
•
• There's a lot I can't talk about
•
• 4.
•
• Look at how we didn't know
•
• Occupational classification schema
•
• Every Yukoner owns the 1979
•
• LongGone Outhouse Blues in 14 Lines
•
• The One Tree
•
• Wasp Summer
•
• This Isn't the House
•
• Chit Chat
•
• There's only two stories
•
• Acknowledgements"
•
Fresh, funny, and imbued with infectious energy, Northerny tells a much-needed and compelling story of growing up and living in the North. "In Northerny, Dawn Macdonald tempers a poetic soulfulness with a comic's sense for absurdity and punch. These poems speak with smart humor and wit, linguistic delight, and honest observations spiked with confession, always with an ear, too, for what their poet can't say. Macdonald's take on born-and-raised life in the north avoids romantic quagmires with a well-cured settler colonial self-consciousness. Macdonald resists worn expectations in this fresh expansion of northern literature rich with voice, earned insight, and meaning." Jeremy Pataky, author of Overwinter "Dawn Macdonald's poetry is alive with curiosity and truth. She speaks in conversation at times soft and at times bitter, creating images from a reality that can be obscure yet familiar. Macdonald's singular work reveals the unromantic beauty of a storied northern world full of lichen, kingfishers, and dog hair. Her poems open new paths in poetry from the high latitudes. This work is a bright addition to any library." Ernestine Hayes, Alaska State Writer Laureate 2017-2018 "Northerny echolocates around the rural, urban, and more-than-human worlds with unflinching curiousity
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