Perfidia powwow On a cloudless summer night

On a cloudless summer night

and thrived

A tale of revenge

In this charming bedtime story

Teresa Peterson's family members have listened to and told stories: stories of events

Perfidia powwow On a cloudless summer nightSky Hopinka's Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of memory, both personal and collective, to address the founding colonial violence of the United States and its lasting impact. In a series of cantos, the book length poem surfaces a first person narrative amidst the stream of history and its accounting through the voices of ancestors and kin. Shifting registers between the embodied and the spiritual, Perfidia's subjective syntax destabilizes