University of Arizona Press IEP Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter Volume 80

As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Marshall Islands from being devoured by the waters around them. At the same time, activists are raising their poetic voices against decades of colonialism, environmental destruction, and social injustice. Kathy Jetn¯il-Kijiner's writing highlights the traumas of colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of American nuclear testing, and the impending threats of climate change.