A music, magical, resilient volume from the 1st Local American Poet Laureate of the United States

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. From a accommodation at night of a distant town, we travel through history and stick to the memory of the Path of Tears in the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a location near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance tracks, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Shed ancestors are recalled. Resilient music are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Known as a “magician and a get better at” (San Francisco Chronicle), Pleasure Harjo reaches the top of her type in Conflict Quality for Holy Beings.