Dragonfly dance : poems / by Denise K. Lajimodiere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lajimodiere, Denise K.

Series:

American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)

American Indian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dragonfly Dance is a collection of poems remarkable for their candor and sense of catharsis. Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian women, Denise Lajimodiere opens a door into the lives of Native girls and women. Her poems often reflect the deep tensions between Native culture and white culture. Reflected in Lajimodiere's poems, life is sometimes beautiful but rarely easy. ""The Necklace,"" the narrator details how her mother repaired a favorite beaded necklace, ""her arthritic fingers patiently / threading beads / on the long thin needle, weaving...

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Out Steppin'; Out Steppin'; The Necklace; Bag Balm; The Quilt; Indian Angel in 1st Grade; Sweat Lodge; St. Ignatius; The Bundles of St. Ann's; The Reservation Dump; Warm Morning at Ft. Totten; My Grandfather Was a New Initiate; The Moccasin Trail; Ogichida Ikwewag; Obodashkwanishi; Dragonfly Dance; Midnight in North Dakota; To My Sister; Automatic Starter; The Warrior; Boise Forte Man; B.J.; Northern Lights; Night Owls; Sonnet; Oven Bread; The Bush Dance; The Bush Dance; Prairie Chicks; Portland, 1070's; 1969; Shape Shifting Rugaroo; Tracks; Father

Home from Happy Rock Happy Pills; Hopeless Was the Ticker Tape; Foster Father; Mother Superior; St. Peter, 1957; Oz; Patent Leather Shoes; Denver March; The Eagles Dance; The Eagles Dance; Tonight the Train; Grand Forks; Sweet Water Well; Holy Hamm's Beer; Drunkard's Mass; May 11, 1980; Uncle Gus and Aunt Veronica; North Dakota; North Dakota on a Sunny Thirty below Zero Day; La Quette; Kicking Thunder; Answers; Crazy Horse; Round Dance by Red Lake; Round Dance by Red Lake; Starvation Winter, 1888; Sisters of War, Lacrosse; Circles; Kookum; Sun Dogs; Winter's Night; The Rain Was Warm and Mild

Tribal Council Candidate Waabishi-ma'iingan; Anishinaabe before Columbus; Turtle Mountain Orchid; Glossary; Previously Published

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781609172008

1609172000

OCLC:

774285408