Mother Some Sun “Cut-Ups Self-Explained

“Cut-Ups Self-Explained

several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris Review

Ronald Johnson's underground classic of visionary and queer poetics

has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering

Mother Some Sun “Cut-Ups Self-Explainedm. s. redcherries A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity mother is a work rooted in an intimate fracture: an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth familys history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained