Perfidia Choctaw As Pretty-shield reminds us

As Pretty-shield reminds us

In its heartbreaking beauty

and culture of the Dakota Indians is the result of many years of linguistic study and personal experience spent in Minnesota by Stephen R

and the rivers flow

Grover reflects on the spiritual beliefs and everyday practices that carry the Ojibwe through the year and connect them to this northern land of rugged splendor

Perfidia Choctaw As Pretty-shield reminds usSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes