Procession

Processionprocession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestselling novelist and award winning poet katherena vermette's third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means to be (at once) a descendant and a future ancestor, exploring the connections we have with one another and ourselves, amongst friends, and within families and Nations. In frank,

Determined to find Vera and her child

As biological diversity continues to shrink at an alarming rate

affecting every living creature on earth

becoming the protectors of America's natural resources

such that it describes ways of knowing

even as the possibilities created by these women live on

nightmares

he feels out of place

Penobscot leader

but we can still honor the bonds between us

the old woman relaxed and laughed

In this urgent and incisive work