Lifting Of The Mist

E. Pauline Johnson, the celebrated Mohawk poet known as Tekahionwake, crafted verses that move between worlds, Indigenous and colonial, ancient and modern, mourning and defiant. 'Lifting of the Mist' gathers poems that pierce through the fog of history to reveal something raw and true: the beauty of a vanishing culture, the ache of displacement, and the stubborn persistence of identity against erasure. Johnson's voice carries the weight of her mixed heritage without apology, writing with crystalline precision about the Canadian landscape, the ghosts of her ancestors, and the women who refused to be forgotten. These are poems written to be performed, rhythmic, muscular, alive with the cadence of oral tradition. For readers seeking poetry that bridges cultural divides while remaining unmistakably its own thing, Johnson's work endures as a testament to what it means to belong fully to more than one world.