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Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.
List of contents
- Offering: Words
- 1 Honey Sweet
- Craving Honey
- The Way To
- She Dances
- The Hive Improvisation
- Weeds in Grief
- Intimate Detail
- The Way To Have No Child
- Stung
- The Way To Be Convinced
- This Body, The River
- Neon Lovers, Another Painting
- For Her Sake
- The Red Toad
- Oyster Mother
- Amazon Huntress Gives Birth to Twins
- With Honey from the Rock Would I Satisfy You
- Woman's Work
- Pica
- The Deep
- 2 Salt Lick
- Craving, First Month
- Offering: The Child
- When I Go Down to Pray
- Kookum
- First Rice
- Idol Construction
- The Girl in Geography Class
- Advice
- The Bee Kept Wife
- Cat Woman
- Parade of Old Loves
- What Pregnant is Like
- Young Poets with Roman Noses
- Wedding Blessing
- Nesting Dolls
- Craving, Seventh Month
- Another Touch
- 3 Milk Sour
- Offering: The Breasts
- Craving Release
- Sisters Stay On the Other Side
- Image
- After Image
- After Birth
- Postpartum I
- Postpartum II
- Postpartum III
- Postpartum IV
- Postpartum V
- New Born
- Look
- Breasts
- Twelve Items or Less, 1999
- Popular Parenting
- 4 Bitter Root
- Offering: Ojibwe
- Craving: Bitter Root
- Twin Bugs
- Vermillion Hands Petroglyph
- Our Words Are Not Our Own
- Poem for Our Ojibwe Names
- They All Dream the Lake, Again
- In the Belly
- Mother of Sorrows
- Summer of Infanticides
- Last Snow
- Changeling
- Elemental Conception
- Maternal Desire
- 1 a.m. Turtle Pool
- Remedy
- Wiisah kote: The Burnt Wood People
- Mindimoyeg: Dandelions
- Old Man's Tale
- Basswood
- Husbandry
- The Good Woman
- The Only Child
- Motherhood as First Language
About the author
Heid E. Erdrich has authored seven books of poetry, a non-fiction work on Indigenous foods, and she edited New Poets of Native Nations anthology for Graywolf Press. Heid's forthcoming book Verb Animate combines poetry and prose. Her honors include a National Poetry Series award, the Bobbit Prize from the Library of Congress, a Native Arts and Cultures National Fellowship and other awards. She is the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate. Heid is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
