... by asking whether there are, among states, suicide states? What kind of destruction, what kind of politics, are thereby made manifest? My concerns ultimately align, I hope, with the knowledge of militarization . © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 suicide militarization destruction Samson...

... immigrated to New York: “American poetry is born in second languages, it is our bounty and the secret of our success, if we have any, as much as Samson's long hair was, once upon a time, the source of his strength. That's why any attempt to homogenize and assimilate undermines the foundations of our poetics...

... Samson’s words) that the tribal and indige- nous people such as the Canadian Innu ‘‘have not been decolonized . . . the nation-states that exercise authority over their lands do so without their consent Relations between natives and Canada, like those between states and other indigenous peoples...