In the current where drowning Is beautiful (Compilation)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Letter to the Daughter I Would Like to Have. In the Field -- A Persistent Dream of Large Bodies -- Anatomy of a Wave -- All the Daughters -- In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful -- Supplemental Enrichment Curriculum -- If Not Seed -- If a Field -- Light Triptych -- Kingugturningaitua -- Baptism by Fire -- Camouflage, Defense, and Predation Being Among the Reasons -- Holes in the Field -- When You Say the Deer Swept Out to Sea Was `Saved' -- How About a Unicorn Horn? -- If You're Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You -- Swell -- Quliyangua'uciikamken -- Redirection With My Dead Relatives -- She Is Making Rope -- How It Goes -- She Thought This Might Be How It Ends -- The Word of the Week Is Wave -- I Too Grow Tired of the Plot -- A Four-Part Apology for My Continued Being -- Uriitarsurciqua -- The Usual Mix of Dismal News -- It's Hard to Signal My Distress with Hands Around My Neck in Every Dream -- The Media Would Like to Tell Me the Color of My Fish Tail on Another Day for Wearing Red -- Palinode -- When You Can't Throw All the Men into the Ocean and Start Over -- Sea Change -- Use That Which Is for Emptying -- If a Liability of Your Own Making -- Six Lines for Christine -- Letter to the Daughter I Would Like to Have.
Summary:
"Award-winning poet interweaves English and Alutiiq as a response to the colonial violence and the silencing of indigenous women, in particular the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls"-- Provided by publisher.
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