The Intimacy Trials by Aja Couchois Duncan

The Intimacy Trials

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The Intimacy Trials

University of Chicago Press

The Intimacy Trials

by Aja Couchois Duncan

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A post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future.

Aja Couchois Duncan's third book of poetry, The Intimacy Trials, explores cycles of violence, loss, and love that arc across history. Composed of intersecting narratives, this collection follows a post-apocalyptic collective of survivors living in a state of gratitude, shame, and awe amid desecrated ecosystems. The present tense of The Intimacy Trials carries the magnitude of a historic past tense filled with land theft, genocide, settler colonialism, and the vicissitudes of romantic love. Couchois Duncan's lyrical, concomitant stories produce a space that holds in balance the complexities of life--joy, despair, intimacy, and irreconcilable grief.

In language that is prophetic, lush, and unequivocal, The Intimacy Trials is a loving accountability letter to our past, present, and future selves, holding both our yearning for connection and the remembrance of what has driven us apart.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
9780226848105
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Aja Couchois Duncan
Published Date:
2026-03-26
Language:
English
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About Aja Couchois Duncan

Of Ojibwe, French, and Scottish descent, Aja Couchois Duncan is a poet, librettist, and social justice coach based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her debut collection, Restless Continent (Litmus Press, 2016), won the 2017 California Book Award for Poetry. A second collection, Vestigial, followed from Litmus Press in 2021, and The Intimacy Trials is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. With the poet Douglas Kearney, she co-wrote the libretto for the opera Sweet Land, staged in Los Angeles in 2020.

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