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A really good brown girl / Marilyn Dumont ; with a new afterword by the author and a new introduction by Lee Maracle.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.D8465 A6 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dumont, Marilyn, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Brick Books classics ; 4.
- Brick Books classics ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Métis--Poetry.
- Métis.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 104 pages : portraits ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Brick Books Classics first edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, Ontario : Brick Books, 2015.
- Summary:
- This land is not just a place to set my house my car my fence, this land is not just a plot to bury my dead my seed, this land is my tongue my eyes my mouth-from "not just a platform for my dance" On the occasion of the publisher's 40th anniversary, Brick Books presents this new edition of Marilyn Dumont's award-winning debut collection. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: And They Waited to Judge / Lee Maracle Maracle, Lee 13
- Squaw Poems
- The White Judges 25
- Memoirs of a Really Good Brown Girl 28
- The Halfbreed Parade 32
- The Red & White 33
- Sguaw Poems 34
- Helen Betty Osborne 36
- Blue Ribbon Children 38
- Old fool and a five-year moon 39
- Let the ponies out 41
- The pay wickets 42
- What More Than Dance
- What more than dance 45
- Beyond recognition 47
- As if I were their sun 48
- Horsefly blue 49
- Spineless 51
- Blue sky pokes 52
- When you walk through my door 53
- Wild berries 54
- A hard bed to lie in 55
- Talking on stone 57
- Recovery 58
- Spring breathing 59
- Breakfast of the spirit 60
- A bowl of smooth brown wood 61
- You only know after 62
- My mother's arms 63
- Guilt is an erosion 64
- Not just a platform for my dance 65
- One day in May 66
- White Noise
- Half human/half devil (halfbreed) muse 69
- Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald 70
- Still Unsaved Soul 72
- The Devil's Language 73
- For Bruce, the Night We Sat Studying Cree 75
- Circle the Wagons 76
- Leather and Naughahyde 77
- It Crosses My Mind 78
- The sound of one hand drumming 79
- Made of Water
- Liquid Prairie 83
- The geese are not welcome 84
- Installation Piece 86
- Fireflies 87
- Âcimowina 89
- Instructions to My Mother 90
- Who Knew the Moons Would Remember 92
- He Taught Me 94
- Yellow sun days of leaving 96
- The Sky is Promising 97
- We are made of water 100.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Originally published: London, Ont.: Brick Books, 1996.
- "Brick Books Classics first edition, 2015"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 1771313455
- 9781771313452
- OCLC:
- 902919277
- Publisher Number:
- 99965854467
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