New Poets of Native Nations
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Publisher Description
A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century
New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth—long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics—and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now.
Poets included are Tacey M. Atsitty, Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Laura Da’, Natalie Diaz, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Eric Gansworth, Gordon Henry, Jr., Sy Hoahwah, LeAnne Howe, Layli Long Soldier, Janet McAdams, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Margaret Noodin, dg okpik, Craig Santos Perez, Tommy Pico, Cedar Sigo, M. L. Smoker, Gwen Westerman, and Karenne Wood.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Erdrich (Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media), an Ojibwe writer and scholar, goes some way toward rectifying a noticeable dearth of anthologies of contemporary Native poets with this essential volume. To do this, Erdrich selected 21 writers of varying backgrounds and statures who published their first collections in the 21st century, which she describes as "an era of witness, of coming into voice, an era of change and of political and cultural resurgence." Given that there are 573 recognized Native nations across America, the volume is far from comprehensive, yet it demonstrates the remarkable breadth of formal styles and substantive concerns among even this small cohort of Native writers. Several of the poets here have garnered recognition in wider literary circles, including Cedar Sigo, Layli Long Soldier, and Tommy Pico, and others such as dg nanouk okpik, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Eric Gansworth deserve greater attention. Through this first anthology of US Native poets since 1988, Erdrich offers readers a path into a "brilliantly lit dimension" that has long been obscured by colonialism in the worlds of academia and cultural production. Correction: An earlier version of this review incorrectly stated that this was the first anthology of Native poets since 1988; it is the first anthology to focus Native poets exclusively from the United States since 1988, though there have been other anthologies devoted to Native poets.
