Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781959030607
- Page Count
- 128
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 6 x 9
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Kenzie Allen
Finalist for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award
Finalist for the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award
Finalist for the 2024 Writers League of Texas Book Awards
“A masterwork.”―Diane Seuss
“This incredible debut announces Kenzie Allen as an important voice in Native literature.”―Craig Santos Perez
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across four sections, poems explore pop culture—the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond—fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love poems that deepen our understanding of romantic, platonic, and communal love.
Cloud Missives is an investigation, a manifestation, and a celebration: of the body, of what we make and remake, of the self, and of the heart. With care and deep attention, it asks what one can reimagine of Indigenous personhood in the wake of colonialism, what healing might look like when loving the world around you—and introduces readers to a profound new voice in poetry.
Finalist for the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award
Finalist for the 2024 Writers League of Texas Book Awards
“A masterwork.”―Diane Seuss
“This incredible debut announces Kenzie Allen as an important voice in Native literature.”―Craig Santos Perez
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across four sections, poems explore pop culture—the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond—fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at a dazzling series of love poems that deepen our understanding of romantic, platonic, and communal love.
Cloud Missives is an investigation, a manifestation, and a celebration: of the body, of what we make and remake, of the self, and of the heart. With care and deep attention, it asks what one can reimagine of Indigenous personhood in the wake of colonialism, what healing might look like when loving the world around you—and introduces readers to a profound new voice in poetry.
Praise for Cloud Missives
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“Cloud Missives is a promise, to the reader, the speaker, the poet, and every generation before and to come. A promise not just of what to expect from Allen’s career, but a promise that the future will look back on this collection, and the time in which it was written—hopefully—with as much skillful attention as Allen has”
Chicago Review of Books -
“A master of poetic attention. . . . a collection worthy of the clouds.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -
“Filled with poems as restless as they are carefully wrought.”
The Rumpus
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