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- Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: American Indian Studies
summary
Heid E. Erdrich writes from the present into the future where human anxiety lives. Many of her poems engage ekphrasis around the visual work of contemporary artists who, like Erdrich, are Anishinaabe. Poems in this collection also curate unmountable exhibits in not-yet-existent museums devoted to the ephemera of communication and technology. A central trope is the mixtape, an ephemeral form that Erdrich explores in its role of carrying the romantic angst of American couples. These poems recognize how our love of technology and how the extraction industries on indigenous lands that technology requires threaten our future and obscure the realities of indigenous peoples who know what it is to survive apocalypse. Deeply eco-poetic poems extend beyond the page in poemeos, collaboratively made poem films accessible in the text through the new but already archaic use of QR codes. Collaborative poems highlighting lessons in Anishinaabemowin also broaden the context of Erdrich’s work. Despite how little communications technology has helped to bring people toward understanding one another, these poems speak to the keen human yearning to connect as they urge engagement of the image, the moment, the sensual, and the real.
Table of Contents
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- Permanent Installation
- The Honey Suckers
- pp. 4-5
- Autobiography as Gesture
- pp. 6-7
- Wireless Handshake
- pp. 8-9
- The Gig of Light
- p. 15
- The Dark Sky Reserve
- p. 18
- Pre-Occupied
- pp. 22-25
- At the Anachronism Fair
- pp. 27-28
- Mix Tape as Didactic
- pp. 29-30
- Rise Up Fallen
- p. 34
- Exhibit B—Bear
- p. 41
- Exhibit Q—Q-Code Found Poem
- pp. 44-45
- The Four Findings of Agent H
- The Mother
- p. 47
- Four Women
- p. 49
- Agent Blue
- pp. 50-51
- The New Archaic
- pp. 57-58
- Lexiconography 1/Clothes Pins
- pp. 60-61
- Dying Well
- p. 66
- Lexiconography 2—It Was Cloudy
- pp. 67-68
- What Gathers
- pp. 71-72
- Stars, Seeds, Signs, Ours
- pp. 73-74
- A Loud Green Dreaming
- pp. 75-76
- Author’s Notes
- pp. 85-86
- A Note about the Art
- pp. 87-88
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 89-90
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609175283
Related ISBN(s)
9781611862461, 9781628952988, 9781628962987
MARC Record
OCLC
971588285
Pages
102
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-14
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017