The Sky Watched Poems of Ojibwe Lives |
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Author:
| LeGarde Grover, Linda |
ISBN: | 978-0-9908047-7-2 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2016 |
Publisher: | Red Mountain Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. THE SKY WATCHED is a collection of poetry--some bilingual--that tells the collective story of a Minnesota Ojibwe that begins with creation and continues to this day. Through poetry, Linda LeGarde Grover contributes to the continuation of Ojibwe worldview and survival in the recounting of history and family stories. In THE SKY WATCHED, the voices of children, adults and...
More DescriptionPoetry. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. THE SKY WATCHED is a collection of poetry--some bilingual--that tells the collective story of a Minnesota Ojibwe that begins with creation and continues to this day. Through poetry, Linda LeGarde Grover contributes to the continuation of Ojibwe worldview and survival in the recounting of history and family stories. In THE SKY WATCHED, the voices of children, adults and elders, of Indian boarding school students and traditional tribal storytellers, and of the Manidoog, the unseen beings who surround our lives every day are given voice in a manifestation of the Ojibwe oral tradition teachings on the written page. "This is the first bilingual poetry book in English/Ojibwe. Not translations but poems using both languages. Linda LeGarde Grover's THE SKY WATCHED is a poetic reaction, in a wonderfully realistic voice, of spirit and essence of the Ojibwe people. Read it and be transformed, as readers of Beowulf and El Cid and other national epics have been throughout the ages."--Geary Hobson "THE SKY WATCHED bears witness to native experience. "Remember, remember, remember, Linda Grove's wonderful book demands. And she does. Again and again. Old tales from the Ojibwe tradition and new stories from mission schools and relocations where 'a tangle of children smell home in their dreams.'These are poems as sad and essential as field of cotton flowers. You will remember them."--Jeffrey Thompson, "Linda LeGarde Grover tells of a calico flowered beanbag that when 'split it spilled the past,' just as her poems spill extraordinary perceptions that house a continent of pain and despair. THE SKY WATCHED is an intuitive voice of reverence that understands the power of the spirit."--Denise Lajimodiere "Linda Grover's THE SKY WATCHED is a beautiful litany of poems about Anishinaabe lives. She weaves English and Anishinaabemowin in lovely and innovative ways, ... a heartbreaking symphony full of many voices, coming together with their own sorrowing but merciful hands. --Erika Wurth ...according to its last lines, 'a continuing song / since long before the memory of mortals.'"--Kenyon Review