In the Hands of the River queer studies a social worker from the

a social worker from the Red Lake Nation who drives five hours to the closest comedy club to pursue his stand-up dreams

of Congress confining pregnant women

This book is the first thorough and systematic interpretive treatment of the relationship between Thunderers and Underwater manitouk

It's on the knee of a loved one

and a champion of Native nations

In the Hands of the River queer studies a social worker from theWhat can we do but seek nectar where it blooms, whispers the porous and questioning speaker of In the Hands of the River. With delicate precision, In the Hands of the River subverts traditional poetic forms to show how a childhood for a queer boy of both Cherokee and European heritage happens within and outside dominant narratives of Appalachia. This debut collection weaves ancestral and personal threads of trauma, reclamation, and survival into a