Indigenous Poetics Cheyenne Margaret Kendell

Margaret Kendell

these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent

diligence and deep commitment to their community

" and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies

So began a quest to understand her people's historical

Indigenous Poetics Cheyenne Margaret KendellIndigenous Poetics is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets in the United States who explore how the genre helps to radically understand, contemplate, and realize something deeper about ourselves, our communities, and our worlds. The collection illuminates the creative process, identity, language, and the making of poetry. The contributors tell us, in their own words and on their own Indigenous terms, how they engage poetic