James Thomas Stevens

Mohawk / Samoa: Transmigrations James Thomas Stevens

Poetry. Native American Studies. Selected by Juliana Spahr for Subpress, MOHAWK/SAMOA: TRANSMIGRATIONS draws on the songs and stories of two geographically distant cultures to create a unique poetic collaboration. By writing beautifully spare new poems that stem out of each other's translations from Mohawk and Samoan, James Thomas Stevens and Caroline Sinavaiana have [created] an exciting mesh where Mohawk and Samoan inform each other to erase boundaries between individual and collective, past and present, inner and outer worlds.--Arthur Sze