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Northern Latitudes (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)

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Northern Latitudes showcases the prose poetry of travel writer Lawrence Millman who writings evoke the people and landscapes of the far northern climes of Canada, Greenland, Labrador, Iceland, and the northern reaches of the British Isles.

The Last Angakok (Angmagssalik, Greenland, 1984): Bedridden he is, this bundle of age, who once could fly merely by flexing his index fingers. Songless he is, this man of songs, who once could chant away avalanches and piterag winds with the great guttural of his voice. And full of sickness he is, this healer, who once could cure everything from rheumatism to possession by unfriendly spirits. Now there's no one left to cure him, and so his sleeping skins mark the compass points of his universe. Yet his eye, slitted half moons, remain bright: they still inhabit a numinous realm. Flying is easy, they say it's the not flying that's hard.