The Salmon Shanties Margaret S. Archer Less attention

Less attention

he offers seven spiritual tools for moving beyond pain

For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial

Might his veneration of children and unexpected care for others change his fate

The Salmon Shanties Margaret S. Archer Less attentionHarold Rhenisch's poems balance the settler and Indigenous experiences of land and water in the Pacific Northwest A collection of shanties (songs) laid out in couplets that move between English and Chinook Wawa, The Salmon Shanties celebrates a poetic tradition deeply rooted on the West Coast. Harold Rhenisch explores memories of people, place, and of returning home, speaking the land's names as a music of its own and creating a series of aural maps.