Kim Shuck

Deer Trails: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 7

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

San Francisco's new poet laureate--a Native American and native San Franciscan--explores urban space and the natural world.ral world.

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Produktdetails

• San Francisco Poet Laureate Nr.7
• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 123mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 100g
• ISBN-13: 9781931404181
• ISBN-10: 1931404186
• Artikelnr.: 55032071

Autorenporträt

Kim Shuck is an Ani Yun Wiya (Cherokee)/Polish-American poet, author, weaver, and bead-work artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. She was born in San Francisco, California and belongs to the Northern California Cherokee diaspora. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She earned a B.A. in Art (1994), and M.F.A. in Textiles (1998) from San Francisco State University. Her basket weaving work is influenced by her grandmother Etta Mae Rowe and the long history of California Native American basket making. She is the winner of the Diane Decorah First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas and the Mary Tallmountain Award for Freedom Voices. In 2017, she was named the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Her newest book, Deer Trails, was published by City Lights in summer 2019. She is also one of 13 recipients of the Academy of American Poets inaugural Poets Laureate Fellowships.