Representing groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Native American studies

and despite the Quechan tribe’s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories

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Introduction by Louise Erdrich

Severalty Potawatomi Representing groundbreaking scholarship in theSeveralty begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. In these poems, river currents tick with the intrusion of the clock's lavish precincts. From powerfully compressed lyrical fragments to pulsing narrative sequences, Severalty shifts perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection. With clear roots in her first two books of