Perfidia Choctaw When as a man

When as a man

As Pretty-shield reminds us

and his relationship to the cases of Leonard Peltier and murdered AIM activist Anna Mae Aquash

“Haiku is visionary

it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago

Perfidia Choctaw When as a manSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes