Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim, 2009 Albert Robida It's as though nature tested

It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California

Christian apologist

love for Claudia

he does his nephew a good turn from behind bars

Particular attention is focused on the failed

Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim, 2009 Albert Robida It's as though nature testeddg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Mahealani Perez Wendt are four exceptional emerging poets. Their Pacific Rim relationship invited opportunity to publish these four chapbooks in one collected volume. Like effigy earthworks, stone, and bone carvings, the books included in this volume portray representational imagery as testimonies to the stunning spirit, landscapes, and lives from which these poets derive. A