Perfidia powwow Settler City Limits frames cities

Settler City Limits frames cities as Indigenous spaces and places

In this charming bedtime story

On a cloudless summer night

war after war

A tale of revenge

Perfidia powwow Settler City Limits frames citiesSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes