The Big Melt Product Form:Paperback / softback created an elaborate imaginary world

created an elaborate imaginary world where much of the land has flooded

animate and inanimate--but launch them in new directions

Bachinsky strings together seemingly non-sequitur images

[E]motionally satisfying and formally accomplished

these stories reward us with universal meditations on loneliness

The Big Melt Product Form:Paperback / softback created an elaborate imaginary worldDescription The Big Melt is a debut poetry collection rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life events. It examines what it means to repair kinship, contend with fraught history, go home and contemplate prairie ndn utopia in the era of late capitalism and climate change. Part memoir, part research project, this collection draws on Riddles experience working in Indigenous governance and her affection for confessional poetry in crafting