Thrown together by terrible circumstance

from historical records

but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing large homes

and Recipes from the Upper Midwest

When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water

Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media medicine Thrown together by terrible circumstanceWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. "Heid E. Erdrich is a futurist messenger who understands that time immemorial works backward and forward, and in all sorts of media, even in a book of poetry. In this collection we see the spiral of interstellar clouds, the whirl of stuff engendered by cultural collision, and a response to the art of it all. Cultures rub up against each other to make a new kind of song. The whole collection is a