No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster from Chamorro human rights lawyer and organizer Julian Aguon.

Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorr…

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