Exile Heart
Exile Heart by Kim Shuck, published by That Painted Horse Press on July 16, 2020, is a poetry collection consisting of 82 pages. This work tracks tributaries from the Golden Gate Bridge in California to the Neosho River in Oklahoma, focusing on themes of Indigenous bodies, nature, family, land, and memory. The collection serves as a reflection on perseverance and survival while addressing issues such as erasure, genocide, and environmental kinships.
Readers will find that Exile Heart engages with critical topics like water protection and the plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, alongside the impacts of wildfires and environmental contamination. Through its exploration of these subjects, the collection invites contemplation on accountability and belonging. This edition, written in English, presents a timely and relevant discourse on the interconnectedness of people and the natural world.
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The 8th book and 7th poetry collection by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck tracks tributaries from the Golden Gate Bridge, California to the Neosho River, Oklahoma. Shuck centers this collection around Indigenous bodies, nature, family, land, and memory. It is at once a call towards perseverance and survival while resisting erasure, genocide, and ongoing environmental kinships, asking readers to whom and what we belong and therefore to whom or what we are accountable to. Exile Heart speaks to the issues of water protection, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, wildfires, and environmental contamination reflecting a perfectly timed collection.
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