Exploring the Kurijmoj festival of the Enewetak people who were exiled from their island in 1947 so that the US government could carry out nuclear weapons tests, this text investigates the empowering aspects of ritual devices such as feasts, speeches, dances, and songs of apocalypse.
Exploring the Kurijmoj festival of the Enewetak people who were exiled from their island in 1947 so that the US government could carry out nuclear weapons tests, this text investigates the empowering aspects of ritual devices such as feasts, speeches, dances, and songs of apocalypse.
"Our words are a clearing, a place for fire," writes Carol Bachofner, in perhaps her finest book of poems yet. Her words are always affecting, vivid, numinous. Here, too, they are the words of her...
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In the author's ten years living in China, Chinese friends and foreign friends alike have told him that in many ways he is more like a Chinese person than an American. He sees himself as an ""egg,""...