Extant, Jenny L. Davis
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A fierce, inventive poetry collection by Chickasaw poet Jenny L. Davis that confronts myths of Indigenous extinction and asserts Native presence, survival, and queer lived experience.
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Extant
by Jenny L. Davis
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What does it mean to exist in a world that keeps insisting you are disappearing?
In Extant, award-winning Chickasaw poet Jenny L. Davis confronts the persistent myth of Indigenous disappearance and dismantles the language that has long framed Native peoples as relics of the past. Drawing on blackout poems, occasional poems, and free verse, Davis rewrites narratives imposed by anthropology, museums, classrooms, and pop culture, reclaiming presence where erasure has been assumed.
These poems move through scientific studies, online question forums, kitschy décor, and the everyday observations of an Indigiqueer Native woman, staging moments of survival that are intimate, sharp, and often wryly humorous. Set among stars, cicadas, earthworms, and moss, Extant insists on Native life as ongoing, embodied, and deeply human.
At once political and personal, this collection speaks to the afterlives of colonial violence while foregrounding endurance, desire, and imagination. Extant is a powerful assertion of presence, not as metaphor, but as lived fact.
Essential reading for lovers of contemporary poetry, Indigenous literature, and queer voices that refuse disappearance.
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