Ancient Light Poems
“Ancient Light Poems” by Kimberly Blaeser, published by University of Arizona Press on January 16, 2024, is a collection of 105 pages that explores pressing ecological and social issues through a blend of lyric, narrative, and concrete poetry. The work addresses themes such as pandemic loss, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and the impact of destructive environmental practices, all while celebrating the connection to natural spaces.
Readers will find that Blaeser’s poetry layers past, present, and future, tracing pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, the poems invoke a sense of belonging and deep relatedness to the familiar landscapes of Minnesota. The collection encourages a new intimacy with the worlds we inhabit, immersing readers in the complexities of the Anthropocene while ultimately reclaiming Indigenous stories and lifeways.
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Elegiac and powerful, Ancient Light uses lyric, narrative, and concrete poems to give voice to some of the most pressing ecological and social issues of our time.
With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.
The collection invites readers to see with a new intimacy the worlds they inhabit. Blaeser brings readers to the brink, immerses them in the darkest regions of the Anthropocene, in the dangerous fallacies of capitalism, and then seeds hope. Ultimately, as the poems enact survivance, they reclaim Indigenous stories and lifeways.
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