Absentee Indians & Other Poems violence and she can't even stomach

and she can't even stomach the food her mother prepares

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Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series

wherever that may be

Like many Native Americans

Absentee Indians & Other Poems violence and she can't even stomachAbsentee 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, Blaesers poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the