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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.
Sommario
- 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
Info autore
Heid E. Erdrich, author of Fishing for Myth poems from New Rivers Press and co-editor of Sister Nations anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, has won awards from The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the Archibald Bush Foundation. She founded Birchbark Books Press with her sister, author Louise Erdrich. Her degrees are from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. She teaches at The University of St. Thomas.
