There Are Rivers in the Sky

There Are Rivers in the SkyIn the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a

during which a workshop classmate repeatedly killed off thinly veiled versions of her in his stories

A motif of rain and water is woven throughout the poetry in When It Rains

And the earth remains today a deep wellspring of revelations and unveiled mysteries for those who take time to watch

Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan

people and insights

She writes

placing Native theorists like Vine Deloria Jr

Tommy Prince

and ongoing injustices

[ Future Home of the Living God] is an eerie masterpiece

These leaders challenged violent and aggressive colonial expansion that would shape the future of Manitou Aki (North America)

Native Alaskan