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In "Mother/Land", Savageau weaves traditional, personal and family stories, with stories of colonization and resistance, revealing a landscape of trees, ponds, rivers and mountains rich in meaning for Abenaki people. Mother/Land is beaded with gems from her mother's jewel box-poems that tell stories of her mother's life and death, and the complexities of love and survival.
List of contents
- MOTHER/LAND
- First Diamond
- Amber Necklace
- Turtle
- The Moon's Other Face
- First Woman
- Opals
- Game Bag
- Ant Tree
- Emerald
- Hair
- The Willow at Flint Pond
- At Sugarloaf
- Fertility Figure
- Twentieth Anniversary Diamond
- Algonkian Paradise
- Race Point, Provincetown
- Grand Banks
- Pies
- Bread
- Where I Want Them
- Swift River
- Red
- GHOSTS AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
- Garnet
- Hummingbird Moth
- Cod
- Everywhere
- Before Moving on to Plymouth from Cape Cod - 1620
- Grandmother Woodchuck Talks to the Women of Salem
- Englishmen's Footprints
- Newfoundland Walking With Joseph Brant
- Daughter's of the King
- Mendel's Milkmen
- Pink Sapphire
- The Kneeling Girl
- Mexican Amethyst
- My Mother's Pearl Cuffs
- Nesting
- No Pity
- Beauty Tip
- Surrogate Mother
- For Lenny, For Lisa
- The Liar
- Aftermath
- Rose Quartz Necklace
- Tradition
- Ring of Protection
- Poison in the Pond
- Smallpox
- Indian Blood
- Graduate School First Semester
- Chandelier
- Crayons
- Pink Ice with Marcasite
- Pemigewasset
- VISITING THE LAND OF THE DEAD
- North Country: Visiting the Land of the Dead
- Entangled
- Morning: UMass Medical Center
- Hurricane - North Truro
- Side Pass
- Night Sky
- Rosary
- Grandmother Woodchuck As St. Ann
- Jewel Box
- DressingUp
- Piano Dream
- Purple Ice
- Figure Eight
- Like A Good Death
- INTO GREEN
- Peridot
- Blue House
- For the Boy Standing Under the Drainpipe
- Waiting for Feathers
- Convent School
- Underage
- Onyx Necklace With Pearls
- You Bring Out the Butch In Me
- Marinade
- Deep Winter
- Wedding in A Burning Building
- Into Green
- Summer Language Lesson
- How to Get There
- Gamebag Dream
- Aquamarine
- Heart
- Grandmother Knits
About the author
Abenaki poet, Cheryl Savageau has been awarded Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and three residencies at the MacDowell Colony. Her second book of poetry, Dirt Road Home, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. She was awarded Mentor of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, as well as Writer of the Year for her children's book, Muskrat Will Be Swimming. Savageau also works as a textile artist. Her quilts have recently been exhibited at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
