Blood Wolf Moon

Blood Wolf MoonIn her mesmerizing sixth poetry collection, Blood Wolf Moon, Elise Paschen weaves constellations throughout, of stars and birds and light and darkness and beauty and horror and nature and humans and history, making shape and meaning of what's around us and even who we are. In this riveting sixth poetry collection, Paschen explores the story lines of her Osage heritage. The core of the book grapples with a dark period of American history, "The Reign of

It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them

But when the treaty bundle

while also navigating a chilling town mystery

- twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy

for everyone

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And animals of all stripes and feathers gather to pay respects to a beloved chief who has fallen defending his people

A fish thanks them for digging canals in the mud that they swim through

a winner of the New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award

in American history

Between October 2010 and May 2013

Based on Sainte-Marie's song of the same name