Blood Snowdg nanouk okpik Alaskan Native poet dg nanouk okpik's debut book, corpse whale (2012), invited readers into a half imagined arctic world, populated by prehistoric mastodons but also littered with plastic trash. A central feature of that book was the speakers disorienting use of she I, which vocalizes a hybrid identity that reflects okpiks Inuit Inupiat heritage, and her upbringing by German and Irish caretakers. In Blood Snow, the poet employs these