In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful

"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"--

About the author

ABIGAIL CHABITNOY (Amherst, MA) is a Koniag descendent and a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska. Her first book, How to Dress a Fish, won the Colorado Book Award in the Poetry category and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Chabitnoy
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9780819500137
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-0013-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 222 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 192 g
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry; Wesleyan Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies