In mother of chaos, queen of the nines, Kelly Clayton unearths the spirit of a dynamic and complex people. Weaving together history, storytelling, religion, gender, and culinary traditions, through free verse and poetic forms in a land based literary journey steeped in cultural traditions. Clayton moves readers to think about notions of time and space and the intricacies of Louisiana Creole peoples. Mother of chaos: queen of the nines seamlessly transcends between spaces that create a long-storied history that has often been misunderstood: a story of post-contact Afro-Indigeneity: Louisiana Creoles.