The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket: Poems

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations. Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethnomusicology, and the present/past/future, the collection rewrites and rerights what it means to be Indigenous, queer, and even formerly-emo in the twenty-first century.

Author: Kinsale Drake
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/15/2024
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.57w x 0.20d
ISBN13: 9780820367309
ISBN10: 0820367303
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Native American
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
KINSALE DRAKE (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. She is a winner of the 2023 National Poetry Series. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the Young Native Playwrights Award, and the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She was named by Time Magazine as an artist representing her decade "changing how we see the world," and is the founder of NDN Girls Book Club (www.ndngirlsbookclub.org).