High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely Kei Miller and a considerable quantity of

and a considerable quantity of ancient Chinese poetry

its stubborn sun

and this is her deepest book

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High Desert by André Naffis-Sahely Kei Miller and a considerable quantity ofHigh Desert is a psychedelic journal of end times and an ode to the American Southwest. Exploring such key events as the First Red Scare, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the West Coasts wildfire epidemic, Naffis Sahelys reflections on class, race, and nationalism chart the regions hidden histories from the Spanish Colonial Era to the recent pandemic. The poems in High Desert also revel in their rootlessness, as the author shifts his gaze outside of the