The intimacy trials /
A post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future. Aja Couchois Duncan's third book of poetry, The Intimacy Trials, explores cycles of violence, loss and love that arc across hist...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2026.
|
| Series: | Phoenix poets.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | A post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future. Aja Couchois Duncan's third book of poetry, The Intimacy Trials, explores cycles of violence, loss and love that arc across history. Composed of intersecting narratives, this collection follows a post-apocalyptic collective of survivors living in a state of gratitude, shame and awe amid desecrated ecosystems. The present tense of The Intimacy Trials carries the magnitude of a historic past tense filled with land theft, genocide, settler colonialism and the vicissitudes of romantic love. Couchois Duncan's lyrical, concomitant stories produce a space that holds in balance the complexities of life-joy, despair, intimacy and irreconcilable grief. In language that is prophetic, lush and unequivocal, The Intimacy Trials is a loving accountability letter to our past, present and future selves, holding both our yearning for connection and the remembrance of what has driven us apart. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 89 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780226848105 0226848108 |