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A review by anishinaabekwereads
Copper Yearning by Kimberly Blaeser
" Sing me again the saga of sin
and separation
of humans and hierarchies;
the ballad of glacial bodies
of many creatures made of water and belief—
the one about transformations
about eons and epics—
these sacred cycles and everyday survivals."
—"Of Eons and Epics" by Kimberly Blaeser in Copper Yearning
I've only read one other collection by Blaeser. I remember reading it and feeling the emotion while also feeling distinctly like I was reading work by someone who knows the craft. You know that way you read poetry and know it's beautiful but also feel like a complete imposter because some of it goes way over your head? That's how I feel about parts of Copper Yearning.
There were sections of this collection that had me wholly invested but there were also many pieces that begged me to go slow, to think, to revisit. If that's how you read poetry, I highly recommend this collection. Filled with family, memories, connections and belongings, environments, and colonialism, and violences, Blaeser has crafted an emotive experience in Copper Yearning and I fully intend to go back to this one again.
and separation
of humans and hierarchies;
the ballad of glacial bodies
of many creatures made of water and belief—
the one about transformations
about eons and epics—
these sacred cycles and everyday survivals."
—"Of Eons and Epics" by Kimberly Blaeser in Copper Yearning
I've only read one other collection by Blaeser. I remember reading it and feeling the emotion while also feeling distinctly like I was reading work by someone who knows the craft. You know that way you read poetry and know it's beautiful but also feel like a complete imposter because some of it goes way over your head? That's how I feel about parts of Copper Yearning.
There were sections of this collection that had me wholly invested but there were also many pieces that begged me to go slow, to think, to revisit. If that's how you read poetry, I highly recommend this collection. Filled with family, memories, connections and belongings, environments, and colonialism, and violences, Blaeser has crafted an emotive experience in Copper Yearning and I fully intend to go back to this one again.