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

Galería de la Raza

he hopes to share his cultures

To my knowledge

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

If there was no America there would be Turtle Island

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