Silty water people : poems / by Vivian Faith Prescott.
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Summary
Silty Water People
Silty Water People From Cirque Press, Silty Water People is a collection of poems exploring the effects of assimilation on contemporary Tlingit/Scandinavian families in Wrangell, a small island community in Southeast Alaska. Two hundred and twenty years after colonization began, through the complex themes of intergenerational trauma, identity, racism, and history, Prescott uses mythology, geological time, and a deep connection to place to weave Silty Water People. Reviews: Reading Vivian Prescott's delightful new collection, Silty Water People, I feel as if I am bonding with a poet companion who is living and raising a family in LingÃt AanÃ, or Southeast Alaska. Prescott's lyric is steady like a trusted boat captain's hand on the wheel, elegiac, attentive to the Wrangell cross-cultural atmosphere and history. All literature used to be local and regional, finding universal resonances within its sense of place; so it is with Vivian Prescott, a bard of her hometown, her family, and of an ethical, investigative, historically conscious, contemporary poet's life. - Ishmael Angaluuk Hope, author of Rock Piles Along the Eddy Deeply personal and powerfully written, these poems offer a deep look into the relationships in which parents and children navigate life in two cultures. While Prescott writes, "time cannot heal everything we do to ourselves," these poems, without flinching, take steps toward healing by exploring the intersections of culture, language, and mothering with honesty and grace. - Nicole Stellon O'Donnell, author of You Are No Longer in Trouble and Steam Laundry About CIRQUE Journal and Press Established 2009 Sandra Kleven ~ Michael Burwell, publishers/editors CIRQUE PRESS 3978 DEFIANCE STREET ANCHORAGE, AK 99504 907 764-1945 Direct correspondence to: cirquejournal@gmail.com Send submissions to: Cirque.submittable.com