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Cloud Missives

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Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across four sections, poems explore pop culture--the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond--fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love poems that deepen our understanding of romantic, platonic, and communal love.

Cloud Missives is an investigation, a manifestation, and a celebration: of the body, of what we make and remake, of the self, and of the heart. With care and deep attention, it asks what one can reimagine of Indigenous personhood in the wake of colonialism, what healing might look like when loving the world around you--and introduces readers to a profound new voice in poetry.

Book Details

Publisher:
Tin House
ISBN:
9781959030607
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
128
Authors:
Kenzie Allen
Published Date:
2024-08-20
Language:
English

About Kenzie Allen

A Haudenosaunee poet and multimodal artist and a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Kenzie Allen was born in West Texas. She holds a BA in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, an MFA in poetry from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her collection Cloud Missives (Tin House, 2024) was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She received a 92NY Discovery Prize, a James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets, and the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry. She is an assistant professor of English at York University.

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