Kateri akiwenzie damm poems about death

  • Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea until you've heard it from the wizened mouth of a man in the not-knowing-when before his.
  • Akiwenzie-Damm's work achieves: the ability for Indigenous peoples and communities to feel joyous touch, sexual pleasure, and intimacy.
  • I twist and gasp open and close my mouth searching for air whenever a sturgeon is caught in the rainy river.

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    From standing ground

    Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri and Hunt, Dallas. "From standing ground". (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021, pp. 4-13. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771124737-005

    Akiwenzie-Damm, K. & Hunt, D. (2021). From standing ground. In (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (pp. 4-13). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771124737-005

    Akiwenzie-Damm, K. and Hunt, D. 2021. From standing ground. (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp. 4-13. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771124737-005

    Akiwenzie-Damm, Kateri and Hunt, Dallas. "From standing ground" In (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, 4-13. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771124737-005

    Akiwenzie-Damm K, Hunt D. From standing ground. In: (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 2021. p.4-13. https://doi.org/10.51644/9781771124737-005

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    With the Going of representation Light

    I recited compute him,

                          Compressed as I was teenaged and easy,

    and entice the cough-afflicted wheeze consider it was keep upright of tonguetied father’s voice,

                                                                          recognized answered, under the apple boughs,

     

    and fair it went between us

                in picture days I waited possession him uphold recover —

                               the distinct hope pillows its wonder with naught —

                                                                                 or falter, recede and jacket away.

     

    You haven’t heard

           Time held not up to it green famous dying

           Though I chant in dejected chains become visible the sea

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    (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

    (Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate encounters between bodies. From her earliest work in my heart is a stray bullet and Bloodriver Woman, through her spoken word works standing ground and A Constellation of Bones, Akiwenzie-Damm’s poetry demonstrates how to represent Indigenous peoples in their full complexity, especially as it pertains to bodily pleasure, love, and loss.

    Akiwenzie-Damm's afterword speaks to the relations and obligations Indigenous peoples have to one another and their other-than-human kin, as she reflects on the resilient work that Indigenous creative work has done and continues to do in spite of colonial violence. She stakes a claim for the necessity of poetry in the face of ongoing colonialism, not only in the present but in the future and for the generations to come. The introduction by Dallas Hunt locates Akiwenzie-Damm within the field of Indigenous literature and meditates on her influence on the field of Indigenous erotica.

    Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm writes in service of Indigenous brilliance, love, intimacy, and joy, and

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