3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers

In this time when so much attention is focused on the border between Mexico and the US, the northern border, unique for its shared borders and boundaries, the bridges between, the blood and heritage people share and the things that divide them is a vastly different place. One of the world's largest vortexes whirls offshore where some of the world's highest tides surge in and out every day. Waves of people have come and gone; Native and First Nations people have been here for ten thousand years. The land is disputed in places in others the US and Canada share responsibility: Campobello Island, where Franklin Roosevelt spent summers, and St. Croix Island International Parks, near where Samuel Champlain spent a disastrous winter in 1604. Sipayik and Motahkomikuk, the Passamaquoddy reservations, reside as sovereign Native lands within the state of Maine. Ownership of Machias Seal Island is still in contention by the US and Canada. It matters not to Puffins and Guillemots who claims it as long as they can land there every year and raise their young.The people here are fishermen, farmers, back-to-the-landers, artists, writers, telecommuters, and more. The stories and poems gathered in the 3 Nations Anthology are about the borders and bridges, blood ties and feuds, and great love shared for this rugged corner of the world where three sovereign nations live side by side, and in some places, overlap.With works by: Lee Sharkey, Cheryl Savageau, Paul Hostovsky, Kathleen Ellis, Carl Little, Michele Leavitt, Michael R. Brown, Mark Melnicove, Donna M. Loring, Sarah Xerar Murphy, and more.These are not poems of my world, but they are utterly vital missives from a world we all desperately need to know'the world where water aches an impossible blue, land lies nurtured and unscarred, and a precipitous beauty startles from all corners. Reading the poems in this long-overdue collection is like pulling a deep, revivifying breath into the body. And we're reminded that the world conjured so faithfully in this work is still there, where it's always been, still waiting for us. Patricia Smith

• | Author: Donna M Loring, Sarah Xerar Murphy
• | Publisher: Resolute Bear Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Collections
• | ISBN-10: 0998819514
• | ISBN-13: 9780998819518