and settler state employees

She grounds her story in a kind of sharply drawn reality that makes the standard tropes of dark futurism that much more unnerving

the ecological crisis

As the population of native speakers ages

When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence

Perfidia land and settler state employeesSky 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