Native poetry in Canada : a contemporary anthology / edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong & Lally Grauer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Jeannette C.

Grauer, Lally, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--Indian authors.

Canadian poetry.

Indians of North America--Canada--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Canada--Poetry.

Canada.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxix, 360 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY : Broadview Press, [2001]

Summary:

Native poetry in Canada brings together the poetry of authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present.

Contents:

Four decades: An Anthology of Canadian Native Poetry from 1960-2000, Jeannette C. Armstrong

Tuning Up, Tuning In, Lally Grauer

A Note on the Text

CHIEF DAN GEORGE : A Lament for Confederation ; Words to a Grandchild ; If the legends fall silent ; Keep a few embers from the fire ; My people's memory reaches ; To a Native Teenager ; I have known you

RITA JOE : I am the Indian ; Your buildings ; Wen net ki'l/Who are you? ; When I was small ; Expect nothing else from me ; She spoke of paradise ; I Lost My Talk ; Demasduit ; The King and Queen Pass by on Train ; Indian Talk ; Migration Indian ; The Legend of Glooscap's Door ; Sune'wit at Kelly's Mountain ; A Course of Study in School ; Fishing and Treaty Rights

PETER BLUE CLOUD

ARIONWENRATE : Alcatraz ; When's the Last Boat to Alcatraz? ; Oche Iron ; Bear ; Dawn ; Crazy Horse Monument ; Yellowjacket ; Sweet Corn Sand hills That None May Visit ; Crow's Flight ; Searching for Eagles ; Old Friends

DUKE REDBIRD : The Beaver ; The small drum ; My moccasins ; Tobacco Burns ; The Ballad of Norval Morriseau.

BETH BRANT : Her Name Is Helen ; Telling ; Honour Song ; Stillborn Night

MARIE ANNHARTE BAKER : Granny Going ; Moon Bear ; Bird Clan Mother ; Pretty Tough Skin Woman ; Trapper Mother ; Boobstretch ; Raced Out to Write This Up ; His Kitchen ; Coyote Columbus Cafe ; Tongue in Cheek, if not Tongue in Check ; CoyoteTrail ; Bear Piss Water ; I Want to Dance Wild Indian Black Face

SARA IN STUMP : And there is my people sleeping ; It's with terror, sometimes ; Little traces in my mind ; I was mixing stars and sand ; He goes away ; Seven men on the lock upon the house ; Like little hands ; Round Dance.

WAYNE KEON : Heritage ; nite ; an opun letr tu bill bissett ; a kind of majik ; the eye of the raven ; moosonee in August ; Kirkland Lake, Sept. 21 ; eight miles from Esten Lake ; in this village ; for donald marshall ; smoke and thyme ; I'm not in charge of this ritual ; if i ever heard ; Spirit Warrior Raven: Dream Winter ; the apocalypse will begin ; replanting the heritage tree

GORDON WILLIAMS : The Last Crackle ; Lost Children ; Dark Corners ; The Day Runs ; Ernie ; Creased Clinic ; Justice in Williams Lake

JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG : In-Tee-Teigh (King Salmon) ; Death Mummer ; Wind Woman ; History Lesson ; Dark Forests ; Green ; Rocks ; World Renewal Song ; Reclaiming Earth ; Apples ; Right It

BETH CUTHAND : Zen Indian ; Seven Songs for Uncle Louis ; Were You There ; Post-Oka Kinda Woman ; For All the Settlers Who Secretly Sing ; This Red Moon

LENORE KEESHIG-TOBIAS : (a found poem) ; At Sunrise ; New Image ; He Fights ; In Katherine's House.

EMMA LaROCQUE : Incongruence ; Commitment ; The Beggar ; Nostalgia ; The Red in Winter ; "Progress" ; The Uniform of the Dispossessed ; My Hometown Northern Canada South Africa ; Long Way From Home

RASUNAH MARSDEN : Father ; Condolences for Marius ; Three Objects ; Kinanti: A Fragment ; Valley of the Believers ; Wordmaker ; Dancing the Rounds ; On Your Passage ; Tossing Around ; Yellow Leaves

SKYROS BRUCE

MAHARA ALLBRETT : when the outside is completely dark ; eels ; in a letter from my brother, atlantis ; in/dian ; the mountains are real ; in memory of fred quilt ; her husband is a film maker ; For Menlo ; Linda Louise ; in the bath ; Father

LEE MARACLE : My Box of Letters ; War ; Performing ; Women ; Mister Mandela ; Leonard ; Ruzzleberries ; Autumn Rose ; Ta'ah ; Light

GEORGE KENNY : Rubble at Central Park ; Poor J.W. ; How He Served ; Death Bird ; I Don't Know This October Stranger.

DUNCAN MERCREDI : my red face hurts ; Morning Awakening ; Blues Singer ; Betty ; back roads ; He Likes to Dance ; something you said ; born again indian ; searching for visions ; searching for visions II ; dreaming about the end of the world ; racing across the land ; yesterday's song ; the duke of windsor

DUNCAN DAVID MOSES : Song in the Light of Dawn ; A Song for Early Summer ; October ; The Sunbather's Fear of the Moon ; Twinkle ; Ballad from a Burned-Out House ; Of Course the Sky Does not Close ; Crow Out Early ; The Persistence of Songs ; The Letter ; The Line ; Offhand Song ; Could Raven Have White Feathers? ; Cowboy Pictures

JOHN CRATE ; The Poetry Reading ; Can you hear me? ; Gleichen ; Storyteller ; I am a Prophet ; Beaver Woman ; Empty Seas ; Departures ; Sentences: at the Culls' ; She is crying in a corner ; Unmarked Grave.

LOUISE HALFE ; Pahkahkos ; Noshkom; Medicine Bear ; She Told Me ; Ukrainian Hour ; Eatin' Critters ; Picking Leftovers ; I'm So Sorry ; In Da Name of Da Fadder ; Der Poop ; These are the Body's Gifts ; from Blue Marrow

MARILYN DUMONT : The White Judges ; Helen Betty Osborne ; Blue Ribbon Children ; Let the Ponies Out ; Horse-Fly Blue ; Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald ; Circle the Wagons ; Leather and Naughahyde ; It Crosses My Mind ; Instructions to My Mother ; The Sky Is Promising

ARMAND GARNET RUFFO : Poem for Duncan Campbell Scott ; Some ; Poetry ; Surely Not Warriors ; Grey Owl ; Mirror ; I Heard Them, I Was There ; At Geronimo's Grave ; No Man's Land ; Bear ; Fish Tale ; Rockin' Chair Lady.

JOANNE ARNOTT : Wiles of Girlhood ; The Shard ; In My Dance Class ; Manitoba Pastoral ; Proud Belly ; Song About ; My Grass Cradle ; Like An Indian: Struggling With Ogres ; Migration ; Protection ; MidLife ; Beachhead Dreaming

CONNIE FIFE : Ronnie, because they never told you why ; Communications class ; the revolution of not vanishing ; This is not a metaphor ; Stones memory ; We remember ; i have become so many mountains ; dear walt ; the naming

JOSEPH DANDURAND ; This was One of Them ; I Touched the Coyote's Tongue ; Someone ; Fort Langley ; One year ; Before me ; Feeding the hungry.

KATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMM ; stray bullets (oka re/vision) ; my grandmothers ; poem without end #3 ; my secret tongue and ears ; from turtle island to aotearoa ; partridge song ; frozen breath and knife blades ; hummingbirds ; night falling woman

GREGORY SCOFIELD : What a Way to Go ; God of the Fiddle Players ; Cycle (of the black lizard) ; Unhinged ; Pawacakinasis-pisim, December- The Frost Exploding Moon ; Peyak Nikamowin

One Song ; T. For ; Not All Halfbreed Mothers ; True North, Blue Compass Heart ; I've Been Told.

RANDY LUNDY : my lodge ; ritual ; ghost dance ; an answer to why ; a reed of red willow ; Ayiki-pisirn

the Frog Moon (April) ; Pawacakinasisi-pisim

The Frost-Exploding Moon (December) ; stone gathering ; deer-sleep.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xxix).

Other Format:

Online version: Native poetry in Canada.

ISBN:

1551112000

9781551112008

OCLC:

46629803

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