Dragonfly Dance

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Av Denise K. Lajimodiere, Denise K Lajimodiere

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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 / night after night." When the necklace is finally repaired, she wears it to school whereAt recess a White boyran by, yankedit off my neck and threw it.I watched as it ascendedhigh above the blacktop,the beads glittered, scattering their light,a rainbow against gray skies.Unadorned, direct, and often raw, these riveting poems sear their way into our imaginations, inviting us into a world we might never have known. We are richer for the knowledge.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt113 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerican Indian Studies
Antal sidor93
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9780870139826

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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, 1070s 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 Danceby 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