JaeRan Kim

halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock

and a singing rain beyond the window

In lyrical

and will empower young people as they struggle with a changing world

Absentee Indians & Other Poems culture JaeRan KimAbsentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaesers poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the