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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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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-1266 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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 seriesWesleyan 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