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The Feast
Book Subtitle: Two Spirit: Stories, Sex, and the Ceremony Behind It All, and Other Poems
Book Description:
Alycia Two Bears invites you to The Feast.
Love, life, motherhood, death, and grief—Alycia Two Bears sinks her teeth into the uncomfortable, exploring Indigenous identities and their intersections with womanhood in this urgent poetry collection.
A Two-Spirit, mixed-blood iskwew from Mistawasis Nêhiyawak First Nation, Two Bears weaves traditional teachings into her poetry, using her words as both reflection and resistance—challenging patriarchy and the inequities that thrive in its shadow.
As a mother, land-based yoga practitioner, activist, and aspiring midwife, Two Bears writes with a voice that demands to be heard. An award-winning poet, writer, and community leader, she beckons you to her table.
With verse as sweet as honey and as sharp as vinegar, The Feast will unsettle, provoke, and linger—its poems finding a permanent home deep within your bones.
“Alycia’s poems are urgent, important and satiating. Her work takes on patriarchy, ceremony, grief, motherhood and feasting in ways that are raw and expansive. The images that she weaves with her words speak of the lands she comes from and drip with texture that you can almost taste. This collection is critical and an ode to Two Spirit resurgence and all the complexities present of carrying generations of resilience in your bones and bodies.”
– Seán Carson Kinsella nêhi(y/th)aw/otipemisiwak/Nakawé/Irish poet and storyteller
“At turns fierce and tender, The Feast explores the dichotomies of the human condition, bringing us from rage to joy, scarcity to abundance, violence to peace. Ultimately, this is a love letter. To the poet’s culture, her sexuality, her children, her family, and perhaps most radically… her self.”
– Ashley J.J. White, Writers’ Guild of Alberta
“Alycia Two Bears’ work is poignant, stark, and entirely beautiful. Her voice dances between the soft playfulness of love and sexuality and the reassurance of healing; her lines undulate on the page itself. All this sacredness is held together by dividing the book into the rounds of a sweat, where the heat becomes more intense, as does the healing. Alycia has put her whole being between the covers of this book. After the last line rolls through you, she’ll be your lover, enraptured and frustrated with you. She will be your best friend and confidant, sipping tea, smiling her warm smile. She will be your Doula, your spiritual guide, a reassuring hug, and a comforting voice in the darkest hours. This work is much needed, and Alycia Two Bears has delivered it.”
– Daniel Poitras, member of Paul’s First Nation & poet
“Alycia Two Bears’ poems delve into themes of motherhood, pain, healing, identity and passion with skill and confidence. Alycia’s writing is provocative and rhapsodic – a celebration of words that’s both carnal and clever. The Feast is soul-satiating.”
– Kim Mannix, Writer & Author of Confirm Humanity
“The Feast is a tender loop through generations and geographies that embraces a fierce certainty. Lush and grounded, this sensual collection models an openness adept at holding the dynamic expanse of being.”
– Samantha Jones – Author of Attic Rain
Author: Alycia Two Bears
Publisher: Wild Skies Press
Format: Paperback & Ebook
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-0693754-0-7
Paperback Price: $22.00
E-Book ISBN: 978-1-0693754-6-9
E-Book Price: $9.99
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