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Selected as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Books That Help Me Through" United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indige... Read More about When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

A gathering of innovative, speculative fictions by writers of color, both established and emerging   The innovative fictions in Infinite Constellations showcase the voices and visions of 30 remarkable writers, both new and established, from the global majority: Native American/First Nation writ... Read More about Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions

In her dazzling new book, Jennifer Elise Foerster announces a frightening new truth: “the continent is dismantling.” Bright Raft in the Afterweather travels the spheres of the past, present, future, and eternal time, exploring the fault lines that signal the break of humanity’s consciousness from th... Read More about Bright Raft in the Afterweather: Poems (Sun Tracks #82)

This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who r... Read More about When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

THE MAYBE-BIRD by Jennifer Elise Foerster THE MAYBE-BIRD marks Jennifer Elise Foerster as a visionary voice in contemporary poetry. Through a spiraling sequence of lyric poems, a cast of voices--oracles, ghosts, water--speaks to a long history of genocide, displacement, and ecological devastation. F... Read More about The Maybe-Bird

In her first magical collection of poetry, Jennifer Elise Foerster weaves together a mythic and geographic exploration of a woman’s coming of age in a dislocated time. Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landsca... Read More about Leaving Tulsa (Sun Tracks #75)