Junk tribal belonging Fairbanks focuses on the discourse

Fairbanks focuses on the discourse markers that are the most ubiquitous and that exist most commonly within Ojibwe texts

to start a new day in the right way

Three years later

including the Native people's incredible resilience despite rapid change and the impact of European arrivals on Native culture

these poems show what has been brewing in an often forgotten part of the American literary landscape

Junk tribal belonging Fairbanks focuses on the discourseJunk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing