“I write from a continuous space of erasure. Poetry was the one way that I was able to hold onto…my history, geography, and language.” ― Craig Santos Perez, contributor
In this groundbreaking anthology of Indigenous poetry and prose, Native poems, stories, and essays are informed with a knowledge of both what has been lost and what is being restored. It offers a diverse collection of stories told by Indigenous writers about themselves, their histories, and their present. It is a celebration of culture and the possibilities of language.
Featuring forty-four poets, including Ishmael Hope, Bojan Louis, Ruby Murray, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Luci Tapahonso, Joy Harjo, dg okpik, Sherwin Bitsui, Heid E. Erdrich, Layli Long Soldier, and Orlando White.
Original influence essays by Diane Glancy on Lorca, Chrystos on Audre Lorde, Louise Erdrich on Elizabeth Bishop, LeAnne Howe on W. D. Snodgrass, Allison Hedge Coke on Delmore Schwartz, Suzanne Rancourt on Ai, and M. L. Smoker on Richard Hugo, among others.
And, a selection of resonant work chosen from previous generations of Native artists.
“There really is no better anthology out there that collects indigenous poets publishing from 1960 to the present.” ― Dean Rader, co-editor
CMarie Fuhrman is the 2019 recipient of the Grace Paley Fellowship at Under the Volcano in Tepotzlán, Mexico, and winner of the Bank s Award for poetry. A 2019 graduate of the University of Idaho s MFA program, she is the Project Coordinator for Indigenous Knowledge for Effective Education Program (IKEEP). Often anthologized, CMarie s poetry and nonfiction have appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Cutthroat a Journal of the Arts, Whitefish Review, Broadsided Press s NoDAPL compilation, High Desert Journal, Sustainable Play, Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, among many other venues. She currently serves as Poetry Review Editor for Transmotion Journal. CMarie resides in West Central Idaho.
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Dean Rader publishes widely in the fields of poetry, visual culture, and Indigenous Studies. His scholarly books include Engaged Resistance: Contemporary American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI (University of Texas Press, 2011), which won the Beatrice Medicine Award for Excellence in American Indian Scholarship and Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2001, edited with Janice Gould). He also curated a special issue of Sentence devoted to contemporary Indigenous prose poetry. Rader s most recent collection of poems is Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon), a finalist for both the Northern California Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award. He also co-edited Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon Press). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco.
