Copper yearning / poems by Kimberly Blaeser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaeser, Kimberly M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

American poetry--Indian authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 143 pages : color illustration ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minnesota : Holy Cow! Press, 2019.

Summary:

Copper Yearning invests itself in a compassionate dual vision--bearing witness to the lush beauty of our intricately woven environments and to the historical and contemporary perils that threaten them. Kimberly Blaeser's fourth collection of poetry deftly reflects her Indigenous perspective and a global awareness. Through vividly rendered images, the poems dwell among watery geographies, alive to each natural nuance, alive also to the uncanny. Set in fishing boats, in dreams, in prisons, in memory, or in far flung countries like Bahrain, the pieces sing of mythic truths and of the poignant everyday injustices. But, whether resisting threats to effigy mounds or inhabiting the otherness of river otter, ultimately they voice a universal longing for a place of balance, a way of being in the world--for the ineffable.

Contents:

Proem

Geographies of longing

Hunger for balance

Frayed histories

Alchemy inherited

Black ash and resistance

Refractions of spirit

Envoi.

ISBN:

9781513645612

1513645617

OCLC:

1100429224