Author : Abigail Chabitnoy
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819500143
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Book Synopsis In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful by : Abigail Chabitnoy
Download or read book In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful written by Abigail Chabitnoy and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. [...]