In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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- Synopsis
- In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the "current."Excerpt from IN THE FIELD They asked me if I was a citizen. They wanted to know what I had seen/I had heard/this was only a test: Look at the mark and tell them what you see.[...]
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780819500144
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780819500120
- Publisher:
- Wesleyan University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/16/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Abigail Kerstetter
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.