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A bow forged from ash / Melissa Powless Day.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.P688 B69 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powless Day, Melissa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples--Poetry.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 110 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Windsor, Ontario : Palimpsest Press : Anstruther Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "A Bow Forged from Ash is a journey of Indigenous reclamation. In poems that explore identity, belonging, responsibility and wholeness, Melissa Powless Day navigates her ties to the landscapes of Southwestern Ontario and the nations to which she belongs. Traversing lived experience, ancestral memory, family stories, and critical engagements with the Land, Powless Day pulls back the bow of language: her poems are poised, unyielding in their nanda-gikendang, their seeking, to voice complex stories about the messiness of returning home, a restoration of familial and community bonds generations in the making. Ultimately, A Bow Forged from Ash is a book that proves reclamation and resistance are inseparable: one cannot walk with pride in their Indigeneity without choosing to resist the colonial status quo."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Nock Northern Lights
- Moccasin Poem
- Displace
- Refraction
- This is not a discovery
- Blood Memory
- Bezhgoozhi
- Moccasin Walk
- Rough Cut
- Winter Roads
- Time Travel
- Field Poem 1
- (Plane Crash)
- Pull
- Axiology : A Paper
- Advice from my mother on a dreamwalk
- My Mother's Buffet
- Choke in the Throat
- Gabian Peanut Soup
- Hollowpoint Indifference
- I wake
- Plough Depth
- They tried to erase us so deep
- State of Being
- Tree Museum
- Field Poem 2
- Loose
- Deshkan Ziibing Wiingashk
- Coyotesong
- Wiingashk Sunlight
- Where we converge
- What the land asks of us
- Muskrat Teaching
- The Castle
- To the wolf spider in my garden
- We Rescue Dogs
- Coming back to the round dance
- Starlight Tour
- That one about coyote-wolf and the spring flowers
- Primitive language
- Letter to a father I never got to know
- Field Poem 3
- Indian Acts
- Nanda-Gikendawin (The Seeking).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Powless Day, Melissa. Bow forged in ash.
- ISBN:
- 9781997508038
- 1997508036
- OCLC:
- 1504285862
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