Trace Folk Art The family of an Osage

The family of an Osage woman

A collection of three jaw-dropping stories: The Red Tree

Design Meaning: "Bongazi" is an African word that encapsulates the noble and luxurious powerful

By Jason Reynolds & Ibram X

and to document their family origins

Trace Folk Art The family of an OsageBy Brenda Cardenas With arresting images and scintillating internal music, the poems in Trace are at turns ekphrastic, elegiac, mythic, rebellious, interlingual, and whimsical, forming a constellation of experience and its traces which transgress borders at every turn. Through image rich poems regarding migration, transcultural identity, loss, connection, dream, and agingsome translingual, some ekphrastic responses to ephemeral and surreal works of