You and I, and Spilyáy

Description

With You and I, and Spilyáy, Kara Briggs emerges as a poet whose words sing across the natural world. Her poetics are inextricably Indigenous to the Cascade Mountains and Northwest Coast of the Pacific Ocean, while radiating with the rhythms of social commentary.

She draws deeply from her Sauk-Suaittle, Skagit, Entiat, Chelan, Wenatchee and Yakama lifeways, while employing documentary poetry crossed with mythology to explore her personal journeys and dialogues with fellow travelers on the roads to liberation across the Pacific Rim, around the world, and into the spirit world.