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Notes of an Indigenous Futurist

by Cliff Taylor

Poetry, memory, and Indigenous futures

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Poetry, memory, and Indigenous futures

Cliff Taylor’s hybrid book brings personal and community histories into conversation with speculative writing. Its poems and portraits draw on Ponca identity, family—including the author’s great-great-great-grandfather Chief Standing Bear—and a childhood in a trailer park. Alongside these recollections, the book includes flash fiction imagining distant worlds, reviews of Native works that are partly imagined, and visions of healing for Indigenous people. Beadwork, Bigfoot, and Sundance prayers also appear in the publisher’s account of this blend of memory and futurism.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Indigenous futurism and speculative flash fiction.
  • Readers seeking poetry and personal reflections rooted in Ponca and Native histories.
  • Readers interested in books combining memoir, cultural portraiture, and imaginative writing.

Themes

Ponca and Native identityFamily and community memoryIndigenous futurismHealing and imagined futures

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Book overview

Notes of An Indigenous Futurist is an unfiltered, beadwork-and-Bigfoot saturated, ecstatic remembering of a fortysomething Ponca's life, complete with longshot after-midnight Sundance prayers and visionary journeys into an impossible, inevitable, fully indigenized human future. Folded into its pages and poetry are portraits of Cliff Taylor's tribe and people, his barroom brawler dad, his great-great-great grandfather Chief Standing Bear, and his trailerpark-and-HBO middle-of-nowhere childhood; as well as superpowered flash fiction imaginings of far-off worlds, reviews of Native masterworks that don't exactly exist but also kind of do, and yearning-born dream articulations of the kinds of healing that are truly possible for the people of Turtle Island today. Deeply considered, shimmering with hard-earned wisdom, and co-created with his ancestors, Notes of An Indigenous Futurist is a hybrid work of the heart and imagination destined to be treasured and appreciated for generations to come.

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