Erscheint: Februar 2027
Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Beading Water
Verlag:
Wesleyan University Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35149100
EAN: 9780819502957
Erscheint: Februar 2027
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 28.–
Beschreibung
Debut collection examines Indigenous loss and recovery, both personal and cultural. Beading Water. , the first book of poetry by Mary Leauna Christensen, is an act of mourning and an act of making. To bead water, as the title suggests, is to string together one's tears, to gather loss drop by drop and shape it into art and meaning. Christensen, a mixed-race woman and enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, grieves her grandmother, her mother, and the maternal line that connects her to ancestral land and language. In these poems, mourning itself becomes a ceremony. The collection moves across multiple forms and languages, asking how an Indigenous person navigates loss in a landscape that has never been post-colonial. Christensen's identity as an amalgamation of Indigenous, Latinx, and European heritage deepens these questions, expanding the book's resonance to broader conversations about mixed heritage, belonging, and self-determination. Throughout, the speaker comes to understand that the bond to Indigeneity persists through death and colonial erasure, and that to name this persistence is itself an act of reclamation. In its emotional reach and formal ambition, Beading Water. speaks to anyone who has had to grieve a person and a world. [Sample Poem]DAUGHTER PRAYERWithin me/ a room is built for you/ great grandmothergreat aunts/ a fire burns warm in the center/ save yourhands & knees/ those strong backs/ here/ floors alwaysglisteni remember/ so little/ Appalachian fog/ at the funeralhome you wore pantyhose & black/ i've poured coffeeinto Styrofoam/ nothing is wasted/ this building onceschoolhouse/ a small basketball court/ still outsidewhat is the difference/ between desks & pewsdaughters granddaughters nieces/ you remembersmall/ press your lips/ to cool foreheads/ beforecasket lids close/ you've only grown old/ buried girlsare burying yourselves now/ in same red dirt/ howrecognizable are namesakes/ grandmother mother meme gravediggerme home maker.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Mary Leauna Christensen
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 72