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Indigenous : Poems by Jennifer Reeser is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Indigenous : Poems about?

Jennifer Reeser's Indigenous is, by turns, a celebration of her Native American heritage and a lamentation decrying the social injustice and tragedies endured. Through Reeser's sublime craft and formal prowess, ancestral memories and spirits—both the immediate and the historical—are visited with chants, prayers, or rituals: be it imagined, culled, or translated in the backdrop of history, myth, and lore. Reeser also immerses us in her mixed-race heritage, in the "bloody war/ Inside of me, between the Red and White." This collection is as uniquely inspirational and thought-provoking as it is fun—a collection not to be missed. PRAISE FOR INDIGENOUS The beauty of this collection of poems is the way it uses every device capable of reaching the reader. These poems go behind the familiar: Wounded Knee, the Trail of Tears, figures such as Sequoyah and Chief Joseph; past the artifacts, legends, and folkways encountered through reading and travels across America, to the intimate details of a specific family and their lives and world seen from the inside. They give, as our literature seldom does, moral weight to the real and living representatives of those nations, rather than to the romanti

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Author

Jennifer Reeser

Publisher

Able Muse Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781773490182

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities