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into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology

02  Trail of Tears (Five Civilized Tribes)

'The Maybe-Bird by jennifer elise foerster Caps Red Bird earrings handmade byThe Maybe Bird cements Jennifer Elise Foerster as a visionary voice in contemporary poetry. Through a spiraling sequence of lyric poems, a cast of voicesoracles, ghosts, waterspeaks to a long history of genocide, displacement and ecological devastation. Foerster uses new poetic forms and a highly conceptual framework to build these poems from myth, memory and historical document, resurfacing Mvskoke language and story on the palimpsest of Southeastern