National Monuments |
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| Author:
| Erdrich, Heid E. |
| Series title: | American Indian Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87013-848-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2008 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies, particularly the bodies of indigenous women worldwide, as monuments--in life, in photos, in graves, in traveling exhibitions, and in plastic representations at the airport. Erdrich sometimes imagines what ancient bones would say if they could speak. Her poems remind us that we make monuments out of what remains--monuments are actually our own imaginings of the meaning or significance of things that are, in...
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Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies, particularly the bodies of indigenous women worldwide, as monuments--in life, in photos, in graves, in traveling exhibitions, and in plastic representations at the airport. Erdrich sometimes imagines what ancient bones would say if they could speak. Her poems remind us that we make monuments out of what remains--monuments are actually our own imaginings of the meaning or significance of things that are, in themselves, silent.