Description
As Erdrich moves from the expectedly 'poetic' to the voice of a newspaper headline or popular culture, we are jarred into wondering how we make our own meanings when the present is so immediately confronted by the past (or vice versa). The language of the scientists that Erdrich sometimes quotes in epigraphs seems reductive in comparison to the richness of tone and meaning that these poems - filled with puns, allusions, and wordplay - provide. Erdrich's poetry is literary in the best sense of the word, infused with an awareness of the poetic canon. Her revisions of and replies to poems by William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and others offer an indigenous perspective quite different from the monuments of American literature they address.
About the Author
Heid E. Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, won a Minnesota Voices award for her first poetry collection Fishing for Myth. She also authored The Mother's Tongue and co-edited Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. Erdrich gives writing workshops and serves as visiting writer at colleges and universities across the country.
Awards
Winner of Minnesota Book Award (Poetry) 2009.
Book Information
ISBN 9780870138485
Author Heid E. Erdrich
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Michigan State University Press
Publisher Michigan State University Press
Weight(grams) 190g