Junk tribal belonging From the Apache to the

From the Apache to the Zuni

Three years later

we considered changing them

these poems show what has been brewing in an often forgotten part of the American literary landscape

Junk tribal belonging From the Apache to theJunk is a breakup poem in couplets: ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what can you grab onto for orientation? The narrator wonders what happens to the sense of self when the illusion of security has been stripped away. And for an indigenous person, how do these lost markers of identity echo larger cultural losses and erasures in a changing