Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
Description
Description
The Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs--a legacy of government regulation over Indigenous life. Corinna Cook, who was born white on Áak'w Kwáan Tlingit land in Juneau, Alaska, wrestles with the past and future into Canada's Yukon Territory. With writing that blends research and reverie, her essays ask how we might come into right relations with our most difficult, shared histories. How can we carry the past together, in a good way, as the land melts? The answers--elusive as they are--carry global resonance, taking shape through a deeply personal lens combined with careful study of local arts, artifacts, maps, and the land we depend on.
About the Author
About the Author
Corinna Cook is the author of the essay collection Leavetakings. Her writing appears in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright Fellow, Corinna's writing has also received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities[CC1], the Rasmuson Foundation, the Alaska State Council on the Arts, and an Alaska Literary Award. Corinna is a graduate of Pomona College and holds a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri. She teaches nonfiction in Alaska Pacific University's low-residency MFA program in creative writing and lives in Juneau, Alaska.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"[Cook] invites readers to join her in her process of asking questions about culture, art, Indigenous learning and northern science. The reader is challenged to make meaning right along with her."
-- "Anchorage Daily News" (4/1/2026 12:00:00 AM)"This book follows a lineage of Alaska writers reckoning with belonging to a vast and wild place but Cook forges new ground in her unique combination of rigorous scholarship and thinking, her wry original voice, and her poetic leaps and stunning imagery."
--Anne Haven McDowell, author of "Living with Wolves" (12/1/2025 12:00:00 AM)
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