'The Maybe-Bird by jennifer elise foerster Caps This landmark anthology celebrates the

This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America

02  Trail of Tears (Five Civilized Tribes)

the first poets of this country

into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology

'The Maybe-Bird by jennifer elise foerster Caps This landmark anthology celebrates theThe Maybe Bird cements Jennifer Elise Foerster as a visionary voice in contemporary poetry. Through a spiraling sequence of lyric poems, a cast of voicesoracles, ghosts, waterspeaks to a long history of genocide, displacement and ecological devastation. Foerster uses new poetic forms and a highly conceptual framework to build these poems from myth, memory and historical document, resurfacing Mvskoke language and story on the palimpsest of Southeastern