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The winner of the National Book Critics Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyrical essays

Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother's body

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Mother 4th Order the upsetting insistence that herA stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family's history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the