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The Tree Is Missing

The Tree Is Missing

Kelly, Shannon Kuta
Nathan, Jesse

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $28.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 13, 2027

ISBN10: 1963270991
ISBN13: 9781963270990
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: Apr 13 2027
Pages: 208
Language: English
In one story I stay in that city forever,

in one I board, and in another I am still waiting.

I am daybreak; I am everywhere.


In The Tree Is Missing, Shannon Kuta Kelly explores the poetics of borders. The collection crosses through real cities and non-places, moving between the unnamed and unmapped spaces on the edges of our lives. With remarkable poise and restraint, these itinerant poems experiment with oral history and translation, traversing borderlines of nation, language, and time. They draw on folklore to evoke a world of worlds that feels current and present, but which can only be reached through storytelling. In doing so, Kuta Kelly explores the loss and displacement - the fracture of identity - created by personal and political turmoil. A powerful debut compelled by questions of borders and displacement, Kuta Kelly writes with a restless immediacy from within histories that continue to shape us.

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