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Miranda, Deborah A.

 
9781882688500: Raised by Humans: Poems

Synopsis

The poems in Raised by Humans are about surviving childhood and colonization. Childhood did not agree with Deborah Miran­da, mostly because the adult humans in charge of her life were not prepared to manage their own lives, let alone the life of a human-in-training. Humans raised Deborah, but it wasn't a hu­mane childhood.

This poetry collection is also about how indigenous people survive civilization and become readers and writers of the same alphabet that colonized their culture. The complexity of being forced to find her way into relationship with the very people or cultures that have hurt/raised Miranda is a paradox at the heart of her poetry, which pushes language past what Miranda calls the “alphabet of walls.”

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À propos de l'auteur

DEBORAH A. MIRANDA is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area. She’s the author of the mixed-genre Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013), two poetry collections, Indian Cartography (1999) and The Zen of La Llorona (2005) , and coeditor of Sovereign Erotics: An Anthology of Two Spirit Literature (2011). Deborah is cur­rently a professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

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