“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.â€â€”Charles Simic
From “Hollow Outâ€:
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.