Poukahangatus: Poems Sami Tamimi the best thing to do

the best thing to do is get back on again

Its moral force is a gut punch

examining fears

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a book fourteen years in the making

Poukahangatus: Poems Sami Tamimi the best thing to doAn acclaimed young poet explores her identity as a twenty first century Indigenous woman. Poem by poem, Tibble carves out a bold new way of engaging history, of straddling modernity and ancestry, desire and exploitation. Intimate, moving, virtuosic, and hilarious, Tayi Tibble is one of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. In Pokahangatus (pronounced Pocahontas), her debut volume, Tibble challenges a dazzling array of mythologies Greek, Mori,