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Subject(s)

• Canadian poetry—21st century [Browse]

Summary note

Follow Garry Gottfriedson in this new collection of combative poems as he compels us and Heaven to listen to the challenges facing First Nation communities today. Employing many of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) images and stories, Gottfriedson takes us inside the rez and into the rooming houses in the city cores, but always drawing new strength from the land and the people who have moved upon it. He speaks of "the smell of grandmothers and grandfathers / breathing the stories into our blood" so as to "wrap our newborn in freshly made Star Quilts."

Notes

Poems.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Copyright; Contents; Two-Faces; Moral Standards; Digestion; Vancouver Snapshots; Guns and Words; Fear Traps; Hard Times; CFOs; Pretty Words; Reality; Deaf Heaven; Guilty; Fools; Band Elections; Pretender; November; Behind Barbwire; Forced Insight; Wishing Bone; Without Him; Norms; Stigmata; Identity; The Sins of Other Men; Micromanagers; Never Spoken; Scars; Motorcycle Riding; Crossovers; Cesare Borgia; Lucrezia Borgia; Poetry; Heaven; Landed; Boundary Lines; His Time Ran Out; Casts; Whisper Talk; Star Quilts; The House; Cselmintwecw; Mother Bears; Stomas; Sky Woman; Cabin Fever
• AtonementThese; Always Remembering; Sunrise to Sunrise; Kemtsene'tkwe; Singing Songs; Secwepemcu'llucw; The Beginning; Crazy Space; Serenity; Born; Courage; Winds; Possibilities; Lost Dog Road; Birds Tangled in Wire; 3 A.M.; Scalping Mad; Time Alive; Songs; Conversations; He Left; Maroon Five; His So-Called Love; Rainstorms; One-Sided Love; Chance; Koyoti Tricks; Bombs; Cool Cats; Body Love; Hands; Bees; Romeo and Skalula; Anything-Goes Love; Go-Time; Koko Taylor; Impassable; Metaphors; Swayback; My Soul; About the Author; Back cover

ISBN

• 1-55380-450-3
• 1-55380-451-1

OCLC

923568418

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