Poetry. Native American Studies. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE is the first collection by M.L. Smoker, whose work has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison. "M.L. Smoker's poems are tough, funny, magical, but not in a goofy way. This is blue-collar magic. Unemployed magic. Living on government cheese magic. I highly recommend this collection"--Sherman Alexie. Smoker is an Assiniboine/Sioux writer from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
M.L Smoker is a teacher and administrator on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, home of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes. She is an enrolled member of both tribes. She holds a BA from Pepperdine University and an MFA from the University of Montana and also attended the University of Colorado and UCLA. Among her honors were the Richard Hugo Scholarship at Montana and the Arianna...
"Very rarely am I inclined to read a poetry book from start to finish in one sitting but M. L Smoker's poems have such grace and insight that I picked up her book and couldn't put it down until I arrive at the final page. Frequently prose-like but artfully and carefully crafted, the poems in this debut book are heartfelt, without being sentimental, and always painfully honest. Like any...
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