Abstract: Jess H̓ áust̓i is interested in how poetry as a form and the natural world as a space of images and relationships can give shape to human identity and experience through time. They explore this through forms and storytelling practices that blend their Indigenous and mixed Settler roots. “I know a blessed matriarch” brings Early Middle English poetry into conversation with Indigenous cultural values and kin-centric ecology by re-envisioning Ichot a burde in a bour from British Library, Harley MS 2253 as the lyric summation of a matriarch who both embodies and exudes Indigenous sovereignty and land love. Through expressing matriarchal ecology and Indigenous feminism as lyric poetry, Jess challenges the idea that specific forms are the moral or intellectual property of a specific period, place, or people and invites a cross-cultural approach to reading land and culture through body and identity.
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