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Skin Like Mine (1st) - Softcover

Gottfriedson, Garry

 
9781553801016: Skin Like Mine (1st)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1553801016 ISBN 13: 9781553801016
Verlag: Ronsdale Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In Skin Like Mine Garry Gottfriedson offers a suite of poems on what it feels like to be inside the skin of many contemporary native individuals.ÊHe pulls no punches as he reflects on the challenges facing native people today. He speaks of "minds full of anticipation" yet with "tongues pointing arrowheads."ÊHe tells of how so many native young people are "afraid to live / afraid to die / afraid of ourselves." As he looks around what was once a pristine natural environment, he finds "the forests being / eaten from the inside out." In the poem "Political Dysfunction," Gottfriedson tackles the many problems with present-day band management.ÊBut as the collection passes the midpoint, a new voice begins to be heard as Gottfriedson reflects on the mysterious Horsechild, and he says: "I will bind the drying racks once again / with hemp to make ready / The rows for drying salmon / so that beneath your skin / the mountains will be forever abundant." The age-old rituals of the people and of the land return to provide comfort and assurance that some things never change.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Garry Gottfriedson, from the Secwepemc first nation (Shuswap), was born, raised and lives in Kamloops, BC. He is a self-employed rancher with a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University. He was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Creative Writing Scholarship by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied under Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Marianne Faithful and others. His published works include: In Honor of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival (Theytus Books, 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, 1990), Glass Tepee (Thistledown Press, 2002 — nominated for First People's Publishing Award 2004), Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing, 2005), Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale, 2006 — Anskohk Aboriginal Award Finalist), Skin Like Mine (Ronsdale, 2010 — Shortlisted for the CAA Award for Poetry), Jimmy Tames Horses (Kegedonce Press, 2012), and Chaos Inside Thunderstorms (Ronsdale, 2014). Gottfriedson has read from his work across North America, Asia and Europe, and frequently gives creative writing workshops and lectures. His work has been internationally anthologized.

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Verlag
Ronsdale Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1553801016
ISBN 13 
9781553801016
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Anzahl der Seiten
120
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