from historical records

Dennis unmakes something in us

Truly universal in its themes

At the turn of the twentieth century

Thrown together by terrible circumstance

Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media medicine from historical recordsWinner 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