from historical records

and a community where she can finally belong

Thrown together by terrible circumstance

You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian

At the turn of the twentieth century

Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media medicine from historical recordsWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. "Heid E. Erdrich is a futurist messenger who understands that time immemorial works backward and forward, and in all sorts of media, even in a book of poetry. In this collection we see the spiral of interstellar clouds, the whirl of stuff engendered by cultural collision, and a response to the art of it all. Cultures rub up against each other to make a new kind of song. The whole collection is a