Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - Native American

Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word "weweni" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for "relatives" is "nindenwemaaganag": those whose "enewewe," or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection. Noodin's warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear translated on facing pages in English.

From planetary tracking to political contrasts, stories of ghosts, and messages of trees, the poems...

Precise images open to piercing meditations of Shawnee history. In the present, a woman watches the approximation of a scalping at a theatrical...

The poems in "Raised by Humans "are about surviving childhood and colonization. Childhood did not agree with Deborah Miranda, mostly because the adult humans in charge of her life were not prepared to manage their own lives, let alone the life of a human-in-training. Humans raised Deborah, but it wasn t a humane childhood.

This poetry collection is also about how indigenous people survive civilization and become readers and writers of the same alphabet that colonized their culture. The complexity of being forced to find her way into relationship with the very people or cultures that...

Creative writing tends to have secrets. Many of my poems do. My belief is that the writer should have surprises ... Poetry also feels. How do you know what it feels like? Only the reader can provide the answer to such a question. A poem may become a puzzle that cannot be broken into pieces without destroying its meaning. Poetry should have secrets Writers have tremendous powers within themselves, even if they are the only ones that can see them. As for me, every poem I compose is done differently. Just take a moment to recall the games Scrabble and Boggle ... the letters must formulate...