This is Where ecology For her first five decades

For her first five decades

only forty miles from the Canadian border and freedom

Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation

and related World War I data

This is Where ecology For her first five decadesPoetry collection by Louise Waakaa'igan, recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first place poem, "There is Where." In this eagerly anticipated volume Anishinaabekwe poet Louise K. Waakaa'igan lets us hear the "winds of flutes" even as she writes from "concrete plains" of prison. In the tradition of political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Marilyn Buck, this poet lets word fly through and beyond prison walls. A multilayered origin story, This