When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water

Thrown together by terrible circumstance

but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing large homes

and a community where she can finally belong

Truly universal in its themes

Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media medicine When a black snake threatensWinner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. "Heid E. Erdrich is a futurist messenger who understands that time immemorial works backward and forward, and in all sorts of media, even in a book of poetry. In this collection we see the spiral of interstellar clouds, the whirl of stuff engendered by cultural collision, and a response to the art of it all. Cultures rub up against each other to make a new kind of song. The whole collection is a