How to Dress a Fish (Chabitnoy Abigail)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry that crafts a prismatic vision of Nativeness at the intersection of language, history, family, and identity

Winner of Colorado Book Award in Poetry Category

Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize

In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of 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
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