Borealis

Coffee House Press

BorealisAuthor(s): Aisha Sabatini Sloan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Coffee House Press, United States\nImprint: Coffee House Press\nISBN-13: 9781566896191, 978-1566896191\nSynopsis\nArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open spaceBorealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloans experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors.\n\nIn Borealis, Aisha Sabatini Sloan observes shorelines, mountains, bald eagles, and Black fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing. She considers the meaning of open spaces versus enclosed ones and maps out the web of queer relationships that connect her to this quaint Alaskan town. Triangulating the landscapes she moves through with glacial backdrops in the work of Black conceptual artists and writers, Sabatini Sloan complicates tropes of Alaska to suggest that the excitement, exploration, and possibility of myth-making can also be twinned by isolation, anxiety.