Ancient light : poems / Kimberly Blaeser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blaeser, Kimberly M., author.

Series:

Sun tracks ; v. 94.

Sun tracks : an American Indian literary series ; volume 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 105 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Ancient Light, a timely and innovative collection by renowned Anishinaabeg poet Kimberly Blaeser. It looks squarely at pressing social issues of our time while simultaneously invoking Indigenous pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Akawe, a prelude

I. Poem on disappearance

Truce

Plead the blood

Taxonomy

see us sacred ≠ Xtracted

Anti-sonnet on rivers

English lessons

In the pause before you speak

When we have lost enough

Dead letter

On the dignity of gestures

An allegory in which there are politicians and false promises

december 2019

About standing (in kinship)

The way we love something small: In deepest winter

Here we begin with gesture

The way we love something small: Vowel sounds from a land

II. The where in my belly

Dipped with cupped hands

Nookwezigan

our medicine plants

Gitigaanan

Understory

Songs like bread: Wiikwandiwin

Found recipe, Mikinaak Dibaajimowin

Of universal suffrage

A water poem for remembering

Binesiwag

The way we love something small: In the wake of bare

Rosetta stone

The ways we practice Mino-bimaadixiwin

The language of sphere

The way we love something small: A wetland filled

A catalogue of migration

Mashkiki, this medicine earth

III. Alaskan poems you didn't write

Dream of birch-winged eagles

Sandhill sky

my journal records the vestiture of doppelgangers

The way we love something small: In the cold blur hour of winter

The way we love something small: Window open to Mahnomen night

Blue on blue

The knife my father gave me at eight

Indian baby in front of an Indian bldg., Albuquerque, NM

Some math formula

The way we love something small: Sun through lace spills delicate

How love balances on each precipice

This small curtained space

Playing percentages

The way we love something small: Pause before the mirrored gray

Grace notes

Beneath the berry moon

An old story

Perhaps even now:

Tonsorium

As if my now gloved hands were secrets

Prayer in the wake of transience

IV. The way we love something small: In the shadow of moons

If scintilla is a flowering luminous as night

Quiescence

The way we love something small: Translucent claws of newborn mice

Another poem in which I watch

Oology

Waaban: ancient light enters

Crane curves of this woodland sky

Tracing, kinship lines

Nocturne at 2 a.m.

Dibiki-giizis: cameo in which heron fills moon

Of poetry and the making of lines

A love poem to common arrowhead

On mapping

Of pith and marrow

The way we love something small: Inky leaf shadows on snow

Of palimpsest & vision

Maxingwaaso: florets

sub-imago (shedding names)

Legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-106).

Other Format:

Online version: Blaeser, Kimberly M. Ancient light

ISBN:

9780816552177

0816552177

OCLC:

1376000469