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How to dress a fish

Title
How to dress a fish / Abigail Chabitnoy.
Author
Chabitnoy, Abigail
Publication
  • Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
141 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Germanic and Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was taken from the Baptist Orphanage, Wood Island, Alaska, and sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Incorporating extracts from Michael's boarding school records and early Russian ethnologies--while engaging Alutiiq language, storytelling motifs, and traditional practices--the poems form an act of witness and reclamation. In uncovering her own family records, Chabitnoy works against the attempted erasure, finding that while legislation such as the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act reconnects her to community, through blood and paper, it could not restore the personal relationships that had already been severed.
Series Statement
Wesleyan poetry series
Uniform Title
  • Poems. Selections
  • Wesleyan poetry.
Alternative Title
Poems.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Poetry.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JFE 20-1266
ISBN
  • 9780819578488
  • 0819578487
  • 9780819578495
  • 0819578495
  • 9780819578501 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2018036133
  • 40029619612
OCLC
1060179595
Author
Chabitnoy, Abigail, author.
Title
How to dress a fish / Abigail Chabitnoy.
Publisher
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Wesleyan poetry series
Wesleyan poetry.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Other Form:
Online version: Chabitnoy, Abigail, author. How to dress a fish Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019] 9780819578501 (DLC) 2018051466
Other Standard Identifier
40029619612
Research Call Number
JFE 20-1266
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