I sing the salmon home : poems from Washington State

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This anthology sings of salmon--lamented and praised, hooked, and netted, spawned out and dammed from home; of their magnificence and generosity, of how the fish continue to give and of what they gave. For this unique collection celebrating salmon, Washington State Poet Laureate and Lummi tribal member Rena Priest gathered poems from more than 150 Washington poets ranging from first graders to tribal elders, all inspired by the Northwest's beloved, iconic salmon. A diverse chorus of voices, they join together in poems that praise salmon's heroic journey, beauty, courage, and generosity and witness the threats salmon face from pollution, dams and warming oceans.-- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Wild, sacred -- Sojourn -- Invisible thread -- Fish school -- Gratitude -- Choices -- Vigil -- What we owe.

Physical Description:

xx, 275 pages ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Poetry.

Subject Term:

Anthologies -- Poetry.

Indians of North America -- Poetry.

Human ecology -- Poetry.

Salmon -- Poetry.

Author(s):

Priest, Rena,

Publisher:

Empty Bowl Press,

Publication Date:

2023

ISBN:

9781737040897

Publication Information:

Chimacum, Washington : Empty Bowl Press, [2023]

Call Number:

808.81 PRIEST

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
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Preface	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Wild, Sacred
I Went Looking for the Wild One	5
Triangulation	6
Suquamish Waters	7
Ascension, 1983	8
Ladders	9
O Lady of the Salmon Run	11
A Case for the Canonization of Salmon	12
Anadromous	13
Returning	15
Passionate Water Poem	17
Salt and Other Spells	18
The Salmon	19
Dressing	20
The Miracle	21
Communion	22
I'm a fisherman	23
Before I Knew Salmon	24
Wild, Sacred	26
Sacrifice	27
The Salmon of Green Cove Creek	28
Sojourn
(Yubec / chinook)	33
Self-Portrait as Spawner	34
Cast Long	35
The Endless Ladders	37
A Salmon of a Man	38
Lobster	40
Evolution from Salmon	41
Sojourn	43
Diadromous	45
The Search for Home	47
Rainbow streams	49
A Rainy Day Is	50
Homecoming (in heat)	51
Redfish Lake	53
At Dusk, Salmon Spawn	55
At the New Year	56
Bedded in Wet Rock Like Any Other Roe	57
Sampling Summer Chum on the Dosewallips	58
Uncle Les and I	60
In or Out	62
Until It Be Laid There	65
Record Salmon Run	66
When I See the Salmon Run in Padden Creek	67
Invisible Thread
Feathers of a jay	71
Moss bright river flows	71
Big river harnessed	72
Dammed rivers	72
If life were sacred	73
Watchful eyes / silent lightning	73
Arduous journey	74
Jumbled fish nets	74
Big salmon in the boat	75
My taste for salmon is rather distinct	75
Crescent moon	76
Salmon bake	76
Rainbow's end	77
Starry night / salmon run / salmon spawning	77
Muscling up the river	78
Invisible thread	78
Gravel circles, there	79
Issaquah sunrise	79
Fabric	80
Departed	80
Salmonology	81
Salmon Moon	82
Fish School
Untitled	85
Salmon Suite	86
The Fish Ladder	92
Lateral Lines	94
Otolith	95
Salmon have translucent little bones	96
Nugguam means to talk	97
I Saw a Salmon Leap	98
[Silver] [shallow] [ripple]	101
Fish of Knowledge	102
Salmon Says	103
The Genius of Salmon	104
Tremulousness	105
Pinned	107
Fish School	109
Water by Salmon	112
Gratitude
Gratitude	115
My Salmon Poem	116
Winter Run, Whatcom Creek	118
Things I've Taught My East Coast Husband about Salmon	119
Just Knowing They're Down There	121
Socioeconomic	122
Coho Earn Carbon Credits	123
Zombie Bears	124
The Upper Reaches	125
Salmon Salmon (a parody of "The Tyger")	126
The Salmyn	127
Cento for the Salmon	128
Nature's Candy	130
The Ones Who Walk Again	131
Salmon Bones	132
We Are Salmon People	133
Comparing Sockeye and King Salmon	134
Recurring Advice to Myself	136
Escape	137
Food for Fallen Angels	138
Spring Salmon at Night	139
At Night the Salmon Move	140
Midnight Market Window	141
Where was the best salmon of my life?	142
My Salmon	143
Salmon	144
A Salmon Scale Is Called a Cycloid	145
Sin of Omission	146
The Curved Shape of Salmon Mouths	149
Choices
The s?uladx w Map of Seattle	153
Ho' oponopono to the salmon	154
Salmon Breathing	155
Sometimes, I Tell the Universe	156
Salmon Circle the RAS Tank until Reaching Market Weight	157
From "Salmon Circle Symphony"	160
Three Salmon Redactions	162
Extinct	165
Salmon: Our Northwest Pride	166
Pipestream	167
Reflections on Fishing Chinook with My Uncle	169
May You Leap Upstream	170
A Columbia River Dam's Confession to the Salmon	172
1047. Voluntary Hallucinations 4-August-22-Valerie Reynolds	173
Choices	174
Tin Rock at Taylor Dock	175
Bottom-Up	177
(We) Choose How It Ends	178
Flotilla	179
Vigil
Salmon People Island	183
This Is Not an Elegy	187
Vigil	188
The Highway	189
True Indian Modern Story	190
Newhalem, Late October	192
Elders	194
The Salmon Contemplates Mortality	195
The Chinook	196
Salmon Leap	197
The Cycle	198
It is wrong to wreck the world	200
We are you	202
Deep Sea Salmon	203
The Inlet	205
Ambition	206
Fade	208
Finding the Poem	209
What We Owe
What We Owe	215
Memo to the Columbia River	216
Every River	217
Trout creek = little water	218
When i first moved to Seattle	219
Daylighting Thornton Creek	220
Chum Return to Johns Creek at Bayshore Preserve	222
In a Font Called Avenir Book	223
Midnight Midpoint of the Cedar River Bridge	225
Ode on a Granite Slab	226
150 Chinook Salmon Released into the Spokane River on August 24, 2022	227
Howl Became an Environmentalist	228
I Whisper Anyway	229
The Use of Weapons	230
Transplanted Prayers	231
Three Sockeye in Columbia River, Oregon	233
What Salmon Need: A Meditation on Place	234
The Green Place	235
Branching	236
Future of Hope	237
Acknowledgments	239
Notes	243
Contributors	247

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