Michael Wasson - April 27, 2023

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UA Poetry Center, UA MFA Program

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UA Poetry Center
Michael Wasson

Michael Wasson reads poems primarily from his first full-length collection, Swallowed Light (2022), which inhabits both the fragmented self and the tensions of language and history experienced by Wasson's Nimíipuu community. Part of the Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Series, this reading was originally given with Jennifer Elise Foerster.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Bojan Louis

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"Aposiopesis [or, The Field between the Living & the Dead]"
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Wasson, Michael. Swallowed Light. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Portrait with Smeared Centuries"
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Wasson, Michael. Swallowed Light. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Self-Portrait as Article I[I]. [Treaty with the Nez Percés, 1855]: Cession of Lands to the United States"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Wasson, Michael. Swallowed Light. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"A Soliloquy Would Imply That the Stage Is Empty"
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Wasson, Michael. Swallowed Light. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2022. 

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"Your Shadow Invents You Every Time Light Fails to Pass Through You"
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Wasson, Michael. "Your Shadow Invents You Every Time Light Fails to Pass Through You." Poetry, vol. 215, no. 3, December 2019, pp. 265-268.

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