Kimberly Blaeser
Author of Absentee Indians & Other Poems
About the Author
Works by Kimberly Blaeser
Red Ants: Stories 1 copy
After Words 1 copy
Associated Works
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020) — Contributor — 378 copies, 4 reviews
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America (1997) — Contributor — 183 copies, 1 review
Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry (2021) — Contributor — 113 copies, 3 reviews
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002) — Contributor — 103 copies, 1 review
Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (2000) — Contributor — 54 copies, 2 reviews
Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers (Modern Library Paperbacks) (2000) — Contributor — 37 copies, 1 review
Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival (Sun Tracks) (1994) — Contributor — 25 copies
Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds: The Survival Of American Indian Life In Story, History, and Spirit (1993) — Contributor — 16 copies
Dreaming History: A Collection of Wisconsin Native-American Writing (1995) — Contributor — 15 copies
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- Legal name
- Blaeser, Kimberly M.
Blaeser, Kim - Other names
- Blaeser, Kimberly
- Birthdate
- 1955
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- dichter
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Billings, Montana, USA
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These slice of life verses carry heavy themes of nature, family, history, culture and memory. The language is extremely specific and evocative creating a lush setting in a moment of time that the reader peers through like a smudged window. This collection offers much to savor and haunt the reader long after the slim volume has been consumed.
Favorite Poems: Shadow Sisters; Dictionary for a New Century; The Things I Know; Resisting Shape or Language; Weavings for Cousins Who Died Too Young
Favorite Poems: Shadow Sisters; Dictionary for a New Century; The Things I Know; Resisting Shape or Language; Weavings for Cousins Who Died Too Young
This is a really excellent collection of poems with many passages and lines that made me gasp or reread or speak them out loud. Themes of memory and human connection predominate with deep meditations upon the process of living, recalling, grieving and loving.
Favorite Poems: Living History; who takes me places where poems live; Alaskan Mountain Stories, Transfiguration; Trailing You; Surviving Winter or Old Stories We Tell Ourselves When a Blizzard is Coming; Downwinders; Rewriting your life; show more Sewing Memories show less
Favorite Poems: Living History; who takes me places where poems live; Alaskan Mountain Stories, Transfiguration; Trailing You; Surviving Winter or Old Stories We Tell Ourselves When a Blizzard is Coming; Downwinders; Rewriting your life; show more Sewing Memories show less
Some poems spoke strongly to me. "Where I was That Day" speaks of a young child learning from the insects & chameleons how to be invisible "...made me think we are all always finding our place..."
"Surviving Winter" with survival stories, and thinking "...now I know that winter comes so that we tell stories and learn to survive life."
"Rewriting Your Life", where the "aches in our bones...really small but impossible hopes dreamed endlessly" and "...the small store of joy of a people born show more poor..." but with the hope of changing the pattern which, while maybe not perfect, will be "...beautiful as only loved pain can be."
"Sewing Memories..." helped me remember so many connections I have with my own friends and relatives based on clothes made and given, fabrics reused.
Her musings on drops of dew in the morning, butterfiles tickling her palm, a poem honoring her older brother, a poem celebrating a young relative who died from a genetic disorder. show less
"Surviving Winter" with survival stories, and thinking "...now I know that winter comes so that we tell stories and learn to survive life."
"Rewriting Your Life", where the "aches in our bones...really small but impossible hopes dreamed endlessly" and "...the small store of joy of a people born show more poor..." but with the hope of changing the pattern which, while maybe not perfect, will be "...beautiful as only loved pain can be."
"Sewing Memories..." helped me remember so many connections I have with my own friends and relatives based on clothes made and given, fabrics reused.
Her musings on drops of dew in the morning, butterfiles tickling her palm, a poem honoring her older brother, a poem celebrating a young relative who died from a genetic disorder. show less
Favorite Poems: This Guy Back Home; Studies in Migration; This Song; Anza Borrego, 1995
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