Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug an animal sacred to Native

an animal sacred to Native Americans and a powerful symbol of the American West

potter and sculptor

Galería de la Raza

by Morgan Asoyuf (Tsmshian

Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug an animal sacred to NativeSwallowed Light begins at the opened clearing of myth, at the mouth of history. In his breathtaking debut poetry collection, Michael Wasson writes into the gaps left by a legacy of erasurethe wholly American fracture of colonialismwhere the indigenous tongue is determined to bloom against its own vanishing. These poems mourn and build with pattern and intricacy, intuition and echo, calling ocean and heartbreak and basalt, monsters and bullets and