About Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal’s most recent book of poetry is The Invention of the Kaleidoscope. Intimate, a hybrid phototext memoir that combines poems, nonfiction, and fiction with photography, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her other works include The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, A Crash of Rhinos, and Six Girls without Pants. She teaches creative writing at the University of Utah.

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Edward Curtis’s Lewis and Clark’s Landing Place at Nihhluidih

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Imagine your point of entry here. Sheer cliffs
of broken rock, razor trees, water
barely gentled at this shore where a man,
pikestaff-lean and shaped

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