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The Intimacy Trials

The Intimacy Trials

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0226848108
ISBN13: 9780226848105
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Mar 26 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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