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The pemmican eaters : poems / Marilyn Dumont.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.D8465 P46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dumont, Marilyn, 1955- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Riel, Louis, 1844-1885--Poetry.
- Riel, Louis.
- Riel, Louis, 1844-1885.
- Métis--History--Poetry.
- Métis.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 66 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : ECW Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- With a title derived from John A. Macdonald's moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont's sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the: geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political situation of Batoche during this time through the eyes of those who experienced the battles, as well as through the eyes of Gabriel and Madeleine Dumont and Louis Riel. Included in this collection are poems about bison, seed beadwork, and the Red River Cart, and some poems employ elements of the Michif language, which, along with French and Cree, was spoken by Dumont's ancestors. In Dumont's The Pemmican Eaters, a multiplicity of identities is a strengthening rather than a weakening or diluting force in culture. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Our Gabriel 1
- Otipemisiwak 7
- Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald 9
- Notre Frères 10
- Li bufloo 11
- How to Make Pemmican 12
- I wanted to treat them as we would have treated buffalo 13
- Les Animaux 14
- these are wintering words 16
- What we don't need 17
- October 1869: to smoke their pipes and sing their songs 18
- Lines 22
- Not a single blade 23
- Ode to the Red River Cart 27
- Fiddle bids us 29
- Just tell me when the fiddler arrives 31
- She worries beads 33
- with second sight, she pushes 34
- Sky berry and water berry 39
- Beads the right size and colour 42
- the land she came from 43
- The black mare 46
- you are riding for the border tonight 50
- Red River framed houses & dust 51
- To a fair country 52
- what's left 54
- The Showman & Show Indians 55
- rich in horses 56
- Requiem for Louis Riel 57
- Post Battle of Batoche: Gatling Gun 59
- Our Prince 60
- Louis' last vision 62.
- Notes:
- "A misFit book."
- Poems.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Dumont, Marilyn, author. Pemmican eaters.
- ISBN:
- 9781770412415
- 1770412417
- OCLC:
- 884816371
- Publisher Number:
- 99963160842
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