National recognition for Indigenous poems

University of Hawaiʻi
Craig Santos Perez
Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez's collection of poems were created to help heal traumatic wounds linked to colonialism, militarism and environmental injustice in the western Pacific island of Guåhan or Guam. The poetry book, from unincorporated territory [åmot] by Perez, an English professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is a deeply personal piece of work drawing from his life growing up in Guåhan amongst his Indigenous Chamoru people.

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