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The second collection of poems by Tanaya Winder. . "Ruthless with truth and sonic boomed with radiance, Tanaya Winder is sweet soul medicine." --Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed and The Moon of Letting Go . In "Why Storms are named after People but Bullets remain nameless," we find Tanaya Winder in the thick of a beautiful burn, where "pain demands to be felt," where joy or maybe something more decolonial than it bubbles up from the black hole of the past. Winder aims a sociological eye at the gun, the bullet, and the throttle so that we might together constellate differently. "like any good indian woman" is one of my favourite poems to date!" -Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of This Wound Is a World . "Gripping and radiantly moving testament of rezilience, healing, and defiance." - Marcus Red Shirt, Poet, Educator, Youth Advocate, and Spoken Word Artist . 'Why Storms are Named After People...' is a book for dreamers and survivors. Every verse of Winder's brings us out of the past and into the possibility and hope of the future." -Skyler Reed - Editor, Moved By Words