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| Title Statement | No country for eight-spot butterflies: a lyric essay / Julian Aguon. |
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| Author | Aguon, Julian |
| Additional Contributors | Aguon, Julian |
| Publication | New York, NY: Astra House,[2022]©2022 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 108 pages |
| ISBN | 9781662601637 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr06663041 |
| General Notes | Originally published as The properties of perpetual light: [Mangilao, Guam] : University of Guam Press, 2021. |
| Contents | Introduction /by Arundhati Roy --The properties of perpetual light --Go with the moon --No country for eight-spot butterflies --My mother's bamboo bracelets : a handful of lessons on saving the world --A handful of lessons on saving the world --Sherman Alexie looked me dead in the eye once --More right --Birthday cakes mean birthdays --Yugu means yoke --A crowbar and a conch shell --The gift Anne gave me --Nirmal Hriday --Mugo' --The ocean within --We have no need for scientists --We reach for you --Reflections while driving --Nikki and me --Onion and garlic --Fighting words --Yeye tere --Our father --Gaosåli --Curved sticks and cowry shells : a conversation between Julian Aguon & Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary | "No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience and power. Part memoir, part manifesto, the book is both a coming-of-age story and a call for justice -- for everyone but, in particular, for indigenous peoples -- his own and others."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Chamorro (Micronesian people)--Biography--Guam |
| Chamorro (Micronesian people)--Social conditions--Guam | |
| Civil rights lawyers--Biography--Guam | |
| Environmental justice | |
| Indigenous peoples--Social conditions | |
| Social justice | |
| By Name | Aguon, Julian |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Personal narratives | |
