Kimberly Blaeser

Kimberly Blaeser (Anishinaabe) is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew up on the White Earth Reservation. She worked as a journalist before enrolling in graduate school, and...

Absentee Indians and Other Poems

Kimberly Blaeser

Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaeser’s poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the mysterious passage from sleeping to wakefulness, or from nature to spirit, she reveals not merely the movement from one age or place to another, but the movement from experience to vision.

“Absentee Indians is a wondrous book of home and that aching longing for home we carry within us as we travel life’s highways. Kimberly Blaeser shows an uncommon warmth and deep, lyrical beauty in her visions. This is a remarkably moving collection of poems.”

—Adrian C. Louis, author of Ancient Acid Flashes Back and Ceremonies of the Damned

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American Indian Studies Series