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

JaeRan Kim

and a singing rain beyond the window

and their parents from loneliness

the seasons

Absentee Indians & Other Poems culture and will empower young peopleAbsentee 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