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Last Days is a practice of radical imagination for our current political and environmental crises. It excavates the conditions that have brought us here — ”white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, corporate power, capitalism” — and calls ancestors, birds, organizers, and lovers to conjure a new world. It explores how to transform our future to be more beautiful, more just, and more compassionate than we can imagine.

ISBN-13: 9781948579162

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Alice James Books

Publication Date: 04-13-2021

Pages: 100

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Tamiko Beyer is the author of Last Days (Alice James Books, 2021), We Come Elemental (Alice James Books, 2013), and two chapbooks of poems. Her work has been published in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, Idaho Review, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, Hyphen, Dusie, and elsewhere. She publishes Starlight & Strategy, a monthly newsletter for living life wide awake and shaping change. She has received awards, fellowships, and residencies from PEN America, Kundiman, Hedgebrook, VONA, and the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, among others. A social justice communications writer and strategist, she spends her days writing truth to power.

Table of Contents

What It Means to Be Human 1

Tankas for What Comes Together 3

Estuary 4

Solstice 7

We Are Bodies in Bodies We Are Stars 8

Unraval All Systems Go 10

Wintering 12

Call It 13

COVOD-19 Triptych 14

Tankas for What Comes Together 17

Equinox 18

Anchor in the Mud 19

Correct Pronunciation 21

Generations 23

What the Grandmothers Say 26

Last Days 27

Tankas for What Comes Together 43

Experiment in Revolution, 2016 44

Solstice 46

Blue Passport 47

Root and Rise 50

Experiment in Revolution, 2020 53

21st Century Eable 55

Sweet Branch Stitched to Bitter Tree 58

Subterranean Haibuns 59

Open 62

I Vow to Be the Small Flame 63

Tankas for What Comes Together 65

[ ] 66

The Flood 71

Equinox 72

Genesis: Featherling 73

Murmuration 74

Birds of a Feather 76

Notes and Acknowledgments