The University of Arizona Press
April 8, 2020
In this time to read, we will be featuring one free e-book each week. This week we’re offering a book from our Sun Tracks Series, which focuses on the creative works of Indigenous and Native artists and writers. This week, we’re featuring Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster, who is also the author of Bright Raft in the Afterweather.
Download from our online shopping cart here. Available until 4/12/2020. Discount code is AZTULSA.
“For a book that unfurled like a wild, restless road trip, I took great delight in Jennifer Foerster’s Leaving Tulsa. Sensuous, generous, full of beginnings and endings, this map of America flapping in the dark meditates on Foerster’s Muskegee ancestry, the American prairie, the loss of her grandmother’s land, and her shard-like rediscovery in California.”—Tess Taylor, NPR
Book Description: Leaving Tulsa, a book of road elegies and laments, travels from Oklahoma to the edges of the American continent through landscapes at once stark and lush, ancient and apocalyptic. Each poem gives the collection a rich lyrical-dramatic texture. Ultimately, these brave and luminous poems engage and shatter the boundaries of time, self, and continent. Learn more
