The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup PAPERBACK 9781068488016

The 87 Press

The Museum of Unnatural HistoriesAuthor(s): Annie Wenstrup\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The 87 Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The 87 Press\nISBN-13: 9781068488016, 978-1068488016\nSynopsis\nWhiting Award 2025 Winner in Poetry\n\nThis extraordinary debut poetry collection by Dena'ina poet Annie Wenstrup delicately parses personal history in the space of an imagined museum. Outside the museum, Ggugguyni (the Dena'ina Raven) and The Museum Curator collect discarded French fries, earrings, and secretsor as the curator explains, together they curate moments of cataclysm. Inside the museum, their collection is displayed in installations that depict the imagined Indigenous body. Into this \""distance between the learning and the telling,\"" Wenstrup inserts The Curator and her sukdu'a, her own interpretive text. At the heart of the sukdu'a is the desire to find a form that allows the speaker's story to be heard.\n\nThrough love letters, received forms, and found text, the poems reclaim the""