Something Small of How to See a River

By Teresa Dzieglewicz

Through the weaving of documentary poetics, first-hand accounts, dialogue, and lyric, these poems tell the story of co-running a school at the Ocethi Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock.

Something Small of How to See a River interrogates the idea of narrative. Who gets to tell a story and what does it mean when the official story, the story told by the governor, the police, or the local media, is a fundamentally dishonest one? The poems collected here meditate on failure: how systems fail us and our environment, how whiteness fails to hold itself accountable, how future generations and the land are being failed--and how, in the face of all this, the Standing Rock movement was not a failure. At the heart of this collection is the strength, care, and radical joy of the movement, which shines through and against the violence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194648282X
• ISBN13: 9781946482822
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.8"