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bibliography Poetry Poetry. poetry. Poèmes en prose. Poésie. Prose poems. Translations.Drake, Kinsale
Summary: "The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and natural world, land, family, pop culture, music, and multigenerational representations. Oscillating between ancestral influences, the repercussions of ethnomusicology, and the present/past/future, this collection defies and re-rights what it means to be Indigenous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Georgia Press 2024
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Summary: "Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural. These poems, written from the perspective of an Ojibwe woman, reveal what sustained harassment does to people, especially to women, children, and Native and Indigenous people, how it can lead to the oppression of others and even ourselves, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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Summary: "Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés's personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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Summary: "From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon. Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle ofnowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022