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Overview
Bad Indian explores what it means to be Native American today through a series of raw, twisting poems imbued with a density of hope only survivors can realize. J.C. Mehta details the adversity of mixed ancestry, of what it means to be called a “Pretendian” by fellow Natives, and what a lifetime of being told “you look something” by everyone else brings to fruition—the realization of not fully belonging anywhere. Mehta delves into living with eating disorders, the victories and losses of loves great and small, and ultimately coming to terms and peace with her heritage. These poems are urgently needed, a buzzing meditation on finding your place in a hostile world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781941799765 |
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Publisher: | Pen & Publish, Inc. |
Publication date: | 04/07/2020 |
Pages: | 70 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d) |
About the Author
Mehta's novel The Wrong Kind of Indian won gold at the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs). Mehta has also received numerous visiting fellowships in recent years, including the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship at the Lilly Library at Indiana University at Bloomington and the Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship at The British Library. Visual representations of her work have been featured at galleries and exhibitions around the world including IA&A Hillyer in Washington DC and The Emergency Gallery in Sweden. Mehta is a popular speaker and panelist, featured recently at events like the US State Department's National Poetry Month event, "Poets as Cultural Emissaries: A Conversation with Women Writers," as well as the "Women's Transatlantic Prison Activism Since 1960" symposium at Oxford University.
Mehta is also the owner of a multi-award-winning writing company and founder of the Jessica Tyner Scholarship Fund, the only scholarship exclusively for Native Americans pursuing an advanced degree in writing. She has undertaken poetry residencies around the globe including at Hosking Houses Trust with an appointment at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England and the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her doctoral research focuses on the intersection of poetry and eating disorders.
Learn more about J.C. Mehta's work at www.jessicamehta.com.
Table of Contents
Do You See the Stars?
Bad Indian
Spring Frenzy
Pulitzer Prize Pig
An Anorexia Thing
The Wrong Kind of Indian
The Catamaran
Resurrection
The L Words
Love You More
Totem of You
Childhood
I Thought You Were Praying
Inside the Rosemary Bush
How I Like My Women
Men
Christmas Chai
Relief
Bouquet of the Body
Eating
Hush-Hush
Relativity
The Two Percent
How Dying Is Done
Rezervations
The Sweet Below the Bitter
Kitchen Volcanoes
Great Grace and Sharp Wings
The History in My Blood
The Banana Plantation
murdered & missing indigenous women
Place Settings
Constructing Carnage
Racing Camels
Gestation
Down There
Recovery
Begging
To Break Fast
The Moving Ons
Landmarks Made of Stone
Wash Rooms
Saving Room
Walking Home
Grooming
Space
The Things I Do for You
Lure
Acknowledgments
Author Biography