Bad Indian: Poems

Bad Indian: Poems

by J.C. Mehta
Bad Indian: Poems

Bad Indian: Poems

by J.C. Mehta

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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
Publisher: Brick Mantel Books
Publication date: 04/07/2020
Pages: 70
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.17(d)

About the Author

J.C. Mehta is a multi-award-winning poet and author of over one dozen books. She's currently a poetry editor at Bending Genres Literary Review, Airlie Press, and the peer-reviewed Exclamat!on journal. During 2018-19, she was a fellow at Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington, DC, where she curated an anthology of poetry by incarcerated indigenous women and created "Red/Act," a pop-up virtual reality poetry experience using proprietary software. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and native Oregonian, place and personal ancestry inform much of Mehta's creative work. 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

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