On the Prairies We Will Live Forever

“Erica Violet Lee makes her own traditions, weaving hope and promise throughout her poetry. You will be changed because you read her work." —Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie and The Cree Word for Love

Erica Violet Lee’s stunning debut poetry collection, On the Prairies We Will Live Forever, envisions a world where the inner-city is and has always been home on Native Land, and where good food, clean air, and a call for joy are the taste, smell, and sound of revolution.

Intertwining the political and the intimate in exquisitely crafted poems and prose, Lee explores love as a community care practice toward freedom. Her writing imagines that everyday thriving for Native girls from the hood to the rez is the sweetest resistance to a cruel colonial empire—one that is much more fragile than we are taught to believe. | Praise for Erica Violet Lee and On the Prairies We Will Live Forever:

“Erica Violet Lee makes her own traditions, weaving hope and promise throughout her poetry. You will be changed because you read her work. Anti-colonialism will take on real meaning in her act of love in creating this and giving it to the world. Her love affair with words is the best kind of love: healing, respectful, and reciprocal.” —Tracey Lindberg, author of Birdie and The Cree Word for Love

“I am awed by the luminous clarity of these poems, by their fierceness and vulnerability, their granularity and philosophical depth. On the Prairies We Will Live Forever is a book of urgent aliveness, a love letter to the author’s most intimate relations and a beacon for all who yearn for a liveable future. Erica Violet Lee is a writer of profound talent and insights, a writer to cherish and tell everyone about.” —David Chariandy, author of Brother | ERICA VIOLET LEE is an urban nêhiyaw and Irish poet from west side Saskatoon. Her work has been featured in the Globe and Mail, Brick Literary Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, and CBC Indigenous, among others.