"This Town Sleeps is an utterly strange and compelling book

and acknowledgment

"—Louise Erdrich

not just human beings

more expansive look at northern Indian removal—and in so doing amplifies the history of Indian removal and of the United States

Manifestation Wolverine land "This Town Sleeps is anThe definitive collection from a groundbreaking Native American poet whose work traces the fault lines between past and present, real and surreal, comedy and tragedy to unveil a transcendent new vision of the world Hailed by the" Bloomsbury Review" as the nation's foremost contemporary Native American poet and by Sherman Alexie as the best poet in Indian Country, Ray Young Bear draws on ancient Meskwaki tradition and modern popular culture to create