Hollow Out

“No one since John Haines’ Winter News has written so well about the interminable winters, the snow, the cold and the human solitude of those living in polar regions. . . . Hollow Out is one of the most moving and original books of poems I have read in years.”—Charles Simic

From “Hollow Out”:

When weasels are out / after the first snowfall of the year / the elders tell me to walk with my mouth / shut tightly against the rivering wind / or the weasel, an opportunist, / will launch

Kelsea Habecker spent five years in a remote Alaskan Inupiat village near the Arctic Ocean.