Notes and Misconceptions
It should not be reduced to poetry as testimony, though testimony matters.
The book is also an exacting study of official language and the violence hidden inside apology.
Best Path
Legal language, Indigenous literature, documentary poetry
Reading Paths
Speculative Pressure, Poetry, and Language Systems
Works that treat language itself as a field of pressure: official speech, legal grammar, war vocabulary, utopia.
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poetryindigenous-litlegal-languageapologyformamerican-litdocumentary