Memory Keeper

<p>What is the embodied shape of memory? How is it cared for and set down into the hearts of future generations? Where lives the land of forgetting? Throughout these poems April Tierney weaves together personal collective ancestral and land-based memory into a single glistening cloth. She courts the cultural necessity of tending to what might otherwise be lost by writing her way into the past as a prayer for what is yet to come. </p>