an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones

you can help him find his glasses and go for walks together

like a delicate blade of cottongrass

and people of Diné Bikéyah and O'odham jeweḍ in a deeply honest exploration of love

Extant gender studies an ability rumored to beThe second poetry collection by award winning author Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw), Extant confronts the many ways in which Native Americans continue to be associated with the distant past and imagined, even today, as more animal than human. For more than a century, anthropologists, museum guides, and high school teachers have described Native American bodies, cultures, and languages as "endangered" or "almost extinct." Through a combination of blackout