Deer Trails

by Kim Shuck

San Francisco’s new poet laureate—a Native American and native San Franciscan—explores urban space and the natural world.

Deer Trails is a strongly elegiac evocation of a San Francisco that lies buried under its contemporary urban landscape, but can still be found peeking through. Native American and native San Franciscan Kim Shuck is the city's seventh poet laureate, and in these poems she celebrates the enduring presence of indigenous San Francisco as a form of resistance to gentrification, urbanization, and the erasure of memory.

Genres: Poetry, Indigenous

96 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2019

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

"But the / Wild eternity keeps / Singing"
-from "Spin"

Recommended poems:
"Force"
"Ritual"
"The End of the Drought"
"Generations"
"Old Monterey Road"

[Shirleynature · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deer Trails is powerful Indigenous validation.
An incantation to read in sequence.
And a song for our urban wildness and community.

I'm awe-struck!
Kim Shuck is whip-smart and awesome!
If you can, you should hear her in person.

[Kaili]

I'm definitely not well versed (lol) enough to rate poetry but this was interesting!

[Frank Karioris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely heart-stoppingly good volume. A total must read.

[Amy Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

How long has San Francisco been sending its poems to Kim Shuck?

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I particularly liked the poem "Wishing Fog".