Savage Conversations Blackfoot When she realizes she is

When she realizes she is lost

likening the cultural implications of alien contact to those of the arrival of Europeans in the Americas

injustice bleeds into betrayal

Fiercely principled

and winner of the 2015 Wordcraft Circle Award

Savage Conversations Blackfoot When she realizes she is"This is a haunted poem. Howe gives us voices intimate, twisted, and deludedand yet relentlessly exact. Inside this drama in verse, a seething history uncoils. But do we meet a mad woman's fantasy or someone more real?" Heid Erdrich May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln's claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face