Ancient Light: Poems Volume 94 by Kimberly Blaeser

Ancient Light: Poems Volume 94

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Ancient Light: Poems Volume 94 by Kimberly Blaeser
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Ancient Light: Poems Volume 94

University of Arizona Press

Ancient Light: Poems Volume 94

by Kimberly Blaeser

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Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.

With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser's poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser's innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

The collection invites readers to see with a new intimacy the worlds they inhabit. Blaeser brings readers to the brink, immerses them in the darkest regions of the Anthropocene, in the dangerous fallacies of capitalism, and then seeds hope. Ultimately, as the poems enact survivance, they reclaim Indigenous stories and lifeways.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press
ISBN:
9780816552177
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
120
Authors:
Kimberly Blaeser
Published Date:
2024-01-16
Language:
English
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About Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser grew up on the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. She earned a PhD at the University of Notre Dame, is professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and teaches on the MFA faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. She served as Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2015–2016. Apprenticed to Justice came from Salt Publishing in 2007 and Copper Yearning from Holy Cow! Press in 2019; Ancient Light, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2024, was named a National Book Foundation Science + Literature selection for 2026.

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