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Extant

Extant

Davis, Jenny L.

Paperback

Series: American Indian Studies

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1611865735
ISBN13: 9781611865738
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

The second poetry collection by award-winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides, and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, cultures, and languages as endangered or almost extinct. Through a combination of blackout poems, occasional poems, and free verse, Davis rewrites the narrative of what it means to exist, to live in a present shaped by colonial violence that emphasizes the power of survival. Drawing on online question forums, scientific studies, kitschy decor, and the day-to-day musings of an Indigiqueer Native woman, Extant stages encounters of Native survival within a world full of stars, cicadas, earthworms, and moss.

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