Belated Bris of the Brainsick Product Form:Paperback / softback Tsa’kwi’ah tries her best to

Tsa’kwi’ah tries her best to help the other children gather wood

scarcely comprehensible to outsiders

and he also draws on wisdom that has been passed down from generation to generation

Birch Split Bark proves that canoes will always write history upon their waters just as poets will write humanity upon the page

Belated Bris of the Brainsick Product Form:Paperback / softback Tsa’kwi’ah tries her best toDescription Belated Bris of the Brainsick traces 1) a belated and in some ways violent revelation about ones ancestry and ones past, 2) a resultant mental breakdown and 3) the pursuit of a new life with someone else who lives with mental illness. These events and the styles in which they are told are inflected by queer, transgender and disabled perspectives and aesthetics. If there is a narrative arc to the collection, it is not the usual one of