Shannon Gibney

who also didn't come home

sometimes grisly

Remembering Our Intimacies argues for the methodology of (re)membering Indigenous forms of intimacies

Rivers in My Veins stories Shannon GibneyWith calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs' poems sing her people, Sauk Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. "Land we live on land," she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose the false settler colonial narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances