02435cam a2200361 4500 2602772899 TxAuBib 20251024120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780816538966 0816538964 B07GZMLN9V Amazon 022c5469-59ac-4922-9a76-b88e71678944 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4283587 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Da', Laura. Instruments of the True Measure [Libby eBook] : Poems. University of Arizona Press, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. native american poetry. contemporary poetry. Indigenous poetry. Shawnee history. indian removal. Shawnee. HTML:<i>Instruments of the True Measure</i> charts the coordinates and intersections of land, history, and culture. Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present. Shawnee history informs the collection, and Da's fascination with uncovering and recovering brings the reader deeper into the narrative of Shawnee homeland. Images of forced removal and frontier violence reveal the wrenching loss and reconfiguration of the Shawnee as a people. The body and history become lands that are measured and plotted with precise instruments.<br /> <br /> Surveying and geography underpin the collection, but even as Da' investigates these signifiers of measurement, she pushes the reader to interrogate their function within the stark atrocities of American history. Da' laments this harsh dichotomy, observing that America's mathematical point of beginning is located in the heart of her tribe's homeland: "I do not have the Shawnee words to describe this place; the notation that is available to me is 40°38´32.61´´ N 80°31´9.76´´ W.". Fiction. Poetry. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-10-24 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=022c5469-59ac-4922-9a76-b88e71678944&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=022c5469-59ac-4922-9a76-b88e71678944&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)