{"product_id":"how-to-dress-a-fish-paperback","title":"How to Dress a Fish - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAbigail Chabitnoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry that crafts a prismatic vision of Nativeness at the intersection of language, history, family, and identity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of Colorado Book Award in Poetry Category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Dress a Fish\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 against the attempted erasure, finding that while legislation such as the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act reconnects her to community, through blood and paper, it could not restore the personal relationships that had already been severed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eABIGAIL CHABITNOY (Amherst, MA) is a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak, Alaska. Her poems have appeared in\u003ci\u003e Hayden's Ferry Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Nat. Brut, Red Ink\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMud City\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757851017504,"sku":"9780819578495","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/db8c34084c4b1b81b3aca759029b95a1.webp?v=1780113136","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-to-dress-a-fish-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}