Traces in Blood, Bone, & Stone
Edited by Kimberly Blaeser
Edited by Kimberly Blaeser
Poetry
ISBN 092614717X
$19.95 + $2.00 shipping
A new anthology of Ojibway Poetry featuring 30 Ojibway poets, including Turtle Heart.
“It might be said that western awareness of American Indian poetry began with the Ojibwe. When Henry Rowe Schoolcraft . . . published translations of Chippewa songs and stories in 1839, it woke the world to the existence of sophisticated literary and philosophical awareness among the “savages” of North America. It could be seen as the start of scholarly respect for what is now called ‘Native American Literature.’ . . .
“With that background, the number, the strength, and the variety of the Objiwe voices in this superb anthology should be a surprise to no one and a delight to every reader of poetry. I cannot think of any collection of American Indian poems—including those that represent many tribal nations—that gives a better picture of what it means to be an Indian today, of the many ways in which Native writers continue to bring the past into the present, celebrate the future, not just survive, but thrive as a vital part of world literature.”
“With that background, the number, the strength, and the variety of the Objiwe voices in this superb anthology should be a surprise to no one and a delight to every reader of poetry. I cannot think of any collection of American Indian poems—including those that represent many tribal nations—that gives a better picture of what it means to be an Indian today, of the many ways in which Native writers continue to bring the past into the present, celebrate the future, not just survive, but thrive as a vital part of world literature.”
-Joe Brachac, Abenaki writer and storyteller,
author of Our Stories Remember
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