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Description

Poems in "The Mother's Tongue" move in images of the living world that include plants and creatures both Native and non-Native to American landscapes. These poems move via persona and personal lyric through expressions of ambivalence about choosing the life of the body-of womanhood and motherhood-through the strange realm of pregnancy into the netherworld of the post-partum period and out into the world again, into the enlarged world, the world at war, the world of work and words. Finally these poems move toward ways to enter the world of women as transformed within the love of language, of Ojibwe language and English, of first language in the mouths of infants and the language of women just discovering the power of their own tongues as they teach speech, to teach desire-to speak the mother's tongue.

Author Biography:

Heid E. Erdrich, author of Fishing for Myth poems from New Rivers Press and co-editor of Sister Nations anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, has won awards from The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the Archibald Bush Foundation. She founded Birchbark Books Press with her sister, author Louise Erdrich. Her degrees are from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. She teaches at The University of St. Thomas.
Release date NZ
April 1st, 2005
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
No
Interest Age
From 13 to 21 years
Pages
120
Dimensions
140x216x7
ISBN-13
9781844710607
Product ID
1967641

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