Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug Galería de la Raza

Galería de la Raza

To my knowledge

Xiala is thrust back amongst her people as war comes first to the island of Teek

JusTea stands for Justly Made Tea

passed down the same way most important things are: quietly

Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug Galería de la RazaSwallowed 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