Smokii Sumac, author of you are enough: love poems for the end of the world.
We are not separate from our Indigenous siblings and kin throughout the world, and this collection, importantly the first of its kind, allows us to witness the calls from brilliant Indigenous voices across time and space to come together in this changing world and become the dreams our ancestors dreamed for us.” Imagine what futures can come of these threads of energy pulling us over continents, connecting us to each other, just as the water of the earth reaches from rivers to lakes to oceans and back again, just as the migration of great winged creatures teaches us. Take the time to sit with these words, to scan the QR codes and listen to the voice and breath of the poets as they honour a prophetic call. Born out of connection, it is striking to read and witness work of slam poetry-poetry created for the stage to reach from the blood of the poet into the beating hearts of the audience, come together to honour the deeply rooted Indigenous identities of the poets offering their work to us in this collection. “This collection breathes life into ancient dreams of Coalkan, a prophecy of the Condor of the South meeting the Eagle of the North brought forth by Indigenous peoples of what we currently call the americas. Every page is necessary and compelling – an awakening, and a ‘body that transmutes hate in song.’” In this, every poem is a world, unique to the storyteller, diverse and full, maintained as living response to the brutality of oppression. Persistent and affirming, the poets pull our gaze away from centered norms of power, empire, and colony. “This collection is an invitation, a re-focusing, and a collaboration long overdue. Voices that cry, shout, whisper and roar passionate messages to the world.ĭon’t miss your chance to see and hear this remarkable international collaboration These are the voices of resistance, voices that speak out against the evils of colonialism, racism, transphobia, and genocide. Digitally enhanced with QR codes, Slam Coalkan links readers to the poets’ performances at the festivals.įrom these pages the poets sing their hopes and their dreams. This anthology, featuring poems from each of the performers, is the result of this remarkable cross-border collaboration. From the cultural space of the Jemaa el-Fna marketplace in Marrakech to the Ise Shrine in Japan, Making Intangible Heritage considers both the positive and the troubling outcomes of safeguarding intangible heritage, the lists it brings into being, the festivals it animates, the communities it summons into existence, and the way it orchestrates difference in modern societies.In 2021, seventeen Indigenous spoken word artists from North and South America performed their works at Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) in Toronto, Canada. Examining the international organization of UNESCO through an ethnographic lens, Hafstein demonstrates how concepts that are central to the discipline of folklore gain force and traction outside of the academic field and go to work in the world, ultimately shaping people’s understanding of their own practices and the practices themselves.
Bringing the sensibilities of a folklorist to these narratives, Hafstein explores how they help imagine coherence, conjure up contrast, and provide charters for action in the United Nations and on the ground. Various stories circulate within UNESCO about the origins of intangible heritage.
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