The Divination of Salmon: Poems - Prescott, Vivian Faith
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In a remote Alaskan fishcamp, Salmon Woman--a shapeshifting storyteller, scientist, and cultural memory keeper--tells stories by way of poems about the intimate bond between salmon, people, and the place they both call home. As these poems shimmer, weave, and flow on the page, they capture the rhythms of rural island life and the changes wrought by climate crisis. Salmon are not just sustenance but identity, and as the environment shifts, so does the lifeweb that binds communities to the fish they depend on. Both warning and wonder, the collection honors ancestral knowledge while imagining a future where resilience and connection endure.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In a remote Alaskan fishcamp, Salmon Woman--a shapeshifting storyteller, scientist, and cultural memory keeper--tells stories by way of poems about the intimate bond between salmon, people, and the place they both call home. As these poems shimmer, weave, and flow on the page, they capture the rhythms of rural island life and the changes wrought by climate crisis. Salmon are not just sustenance but identity, and as the environment shifts, so does the lifeweb that binds communities to the fish they depend on. Both warning and wonder, the collection honors ancestral knowledge while imagining a future where resilience and connection endure.
Autorenporträt
Vivian Faith Prescott (she/her) is a bi writer, born and raised on a small island, Wrangell, Kaachxana.áak'w, in Southeast Alaska. Her children and grandchildren are Ravens and belong to the T'akdeintaan clan from GlacierBay. She was adopted into that clan and is a member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi. Prescott is the author of thirteen books and holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a MA in Cross Cultural Studies: Indigenous Knowledge Systems from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She lives and writes as a climate witness in Lingit Aaní at her family's fishcamp on the land of the Shtax'héenKwáan.