Mother Songs for the Unborn Second Baby Festival features kaleidoscopic poetic sequences

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Mother Songs for the Unborn Second Baby Festival features kaleidoscopic poetic sequencesm. s. redcherries A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth familys history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained