{"product_id":"in-the-current-where-drowning-is-beautiful-9780819500137","title":"In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poetic re-visioning of narratives of violence against women and nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience, questioning the cause and effect of events and asking why stories of oppression are so often simply accepted as the only stories. Alutiiq language is used throughout these poems that are in conversation with history, ancestors, and an uncertain future, in imagery that moves in waves, returning again and again to the ocean, and a deep visioning of the \"current.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt from IN THE FIELD\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey asked me if I was a citizen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThey wanted to know what I had seen\/\u003cbr\u003eI had heard\/\u003cbr\u003ethis was only a test: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLook at the mark and tell them what you see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eABIGAIL CHABITNOY (Amherst, MA) is a Koniag descendent and a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eHow to Dress a Fish\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Colorado Book Award in the Poetry category and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497157103890,"sku":"9780819500137","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_86eea5dd-7189-4675-9673-f46fcb5cb1f4.jpg?v=1730706759","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-current-where-drowning-is-beautiful-9780819500137","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}