Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug Xiala is thrust back amongst

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

he hopes to share his cultures

If there was no America there would be Turtle Island

We shine brighter when our people stand together

Each moiety is divided into clans

Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug Xiala is thrust back amongstSwallowed 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