{"product_id":"how-to-dress-a-fish-9780819578495","title":"How to Dress a Fish","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abigail Chabitnoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819578495","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713221922953,"sku":"9780819578495","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_51ac6ab5-b127-406d-9cbe-776fd6ed41e2.jpg?v=1719606045","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/how-to-dress-a-fish-9780819578495","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}