Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands by Cook, Corinna
Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands by Cook, Corinna

Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands

The Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a...
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Author: Corinna Cook
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Language: English
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Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands by Cook, Corinna

Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands

$75.99 $39.40
Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands by Cook, Corinna

Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands

$75.99 $39.40
Author: Corinna Cook
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Corinna Cook
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 02/24/2026
Pages: 298
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.69w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9781959000709


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2026

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.


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