" ~ From the Introduction

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

and a community where she can finally belong

but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing large homes

Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media medicine " ~ From the IntroductionWinner 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