Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug We shine brighter when our

We shine brighter when our people stand together

Galería de la Raza

potter and sculptor

Each moiety is divided into clans

To my knowledge

Book: Swallowed Light - Poems by Michael Wasson Signature Indigenous Mug We shine brighter when ourSwallowed 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