No country for eight-spot butterflies : a lyric essay

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"No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice -- for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples -- his own and others."-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9781662601637

Edition:

First edition

Description:

108 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:

Originally published as The properties of perpetual light: [Mangilao, Guam] : University of Guam Press, 2021
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Introduction / by Arundhati Roy
The properties of perpetual light
Go with the moon
No country for eight-spot butterflies
My mother's bamboo bracelets : a handful of lessons on saving the world
A handful of lessons on saving the world
Sherman Alexie looked me dead in the eye once
More right
Birthday cakes mean birthdays
Yugu means yoke
A crowbar and a conch shell
The gift Anne gave me
Nirmal Hriday
Mugo'
The ocean within
We have no need for scientists
We reach for you
Reflections while driving
Nikki and me
Onion and garlic
Fighting words
Yeye tere
Our father
Gaosåli
Curved sticks and cowry shells : a conversation between Julian Aguon & Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura

LCCN:

2022002991

Control Number:

3218038

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revision of: Aguon, Julian. Properties of perpetual light

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