Cloud Missives
Kenzie Allen
Year of Publication: 2024
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating,听Cloud Missives聽is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist entering a dig site and unearthing bones, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across five sections, poems explore pop culture鈥攖he stereotypes in聽Peter Pan,听Indiana Jones,聽and beyond鈥攆airy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love poems that deepen our understanding of romantic, platonic, and communal love.
Cloud Missives聽is an investigation, a manifestation, and a celebration: of the body, of what we make and remake, of the self, and of the heart. With care and deep attention, it asks what one can reimagine of Indigenous personhood in the wake of colonialism, what healing might look like when loving the world around you鈥攁nd introduces readers to a profound new voice in poetry.