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"Poetry that crafts a prismatic vision of Nativeness at the intersection of language, history, family, and identity. In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Unangan and Sugpiaq descent, addresses the lives disrupted by the Indian boarding school policy of the U.S. government."--...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chabitnoy, Abigail (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chabitnoy family > Poetry.
Indians of North America.
Alaska Natives.
Off-reservation boarding schools.
Off-reservation boarding schools > United States > Poetry.
Alaska Natives > Poetry.
Indians of North America > Poetry.
United States.
Poetry.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • I
  • Fox Hunting p. 5
  • Family History p. 7
  • Family Ghosts History p. 8
  • [grocery list, July 26, 2015] p. 9
  • Shebutnoy p. 12
  • Distance of Articulation p. 14
  • [Grandfather, fig. 1] p. 17
  • [Boy, bear, bird?] p. 18
  • [(fish)] p. 19
  • [Observe the Indian as subject] p. 21
  • [(never so much fish)] p. 22
  • [The earth was hollow around my feet.] p. 23
  • Elocution Lessons p. 24
  • [( )] p. 28
  • [Grandfather, fig. 2] p. 29
  • [fig. 3] p. 30
  • [fig.] p. 31
  • [(shark)] p. 32
  • [Not even bone.] p. 33
  • Lessons in Articulation p. 34
  • [Grandfather, fig. 5] p. 35
  • [Line. November, post fall month.] p. 36
  • Dream with Shark p. 39
  • Survey of Resource Articulation p. 40
  • [It was winter] p. 42
  • II
  • [Only the beginning is true] p. 45
  • [... the bodies were too soft.] p. 46
  • Early She Works with Bodies p. 47
  • [(conditionally)] p. 49
  • [Pyrrha did not turn back] p. 50
  • She Gets Her Power from the Water p. 51
  • [every able body] p. 53
  • [In a box] p. 54
  • Ways to Sustain p. 55
  • [some burning persists] p. 56
  • [I turned fish] p. 58
  • Dream with Shark p. 59
  • [In a pile of available bodies] p. 60
  • [The dream is only trees] p. 61
  • [she fell down dead] p. 62
  • Let's begin again p. 63
  • [fig. with ghosts] p. 65
  • [(That's not how) the one from the water survived.] p. 66
  • Qawanguq with Fox p. 67
  • [No one expected a flood] p. 68
  • [... the smell of fish baking] p. 69
  • [The water rose.] p. 70
  • Qawanguq with House p. 71
  • III
  • History Lesson p. 75
  • Collection Object p. 77
  • Before There Was a Train p. 91
  • [She coughed and the women came out] p. 92
  • Family History p. 94
  • Family story p. 96
  • or p. 100
  • [not a fish] p. 102
  • [I was only a girl] p. 103
  • As Far as Records Go p. 104
  • Articulation of Distance; Or, The Hero Is Daily Called to Mind p. 107
  • In Communion with the Non-Breathing p. 108
  • [shallow bodies] p. 109
  • Family Ghosts p. 110
  • Ways to Sustain p. 113
  • Re-articulation p. 115
  • Manipulating Manifesting (Re)Generating Landscapes p. 116
  • [Only the beginning is true] p. 119
  • How to Make a Memorial p. 123
  • Ways to Skin a Fish: A Genealogical Survey p. 129.

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