A review by gitli57
Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems by Heid E. Erdrich

challenging dark emotional informative reflective

4.0

Heid Erdrich is a poet and academic. For me, in her poetry collection Cell Traffic, she has a tendency to drift into academic self-consciousness and excess. When she avoids this and focuses on language and expressiveness, I really connect with her work. Her Ojibwe identity always shines through. So there was sifting to be done here, but it was well worth the effort and I look forward to repeat readings.

If you enjoy challenging Native American poets like Natalie Diaz or Billy Ray Belcourt, you might enjoy Cell Traffic as well.