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list price: $15.00
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Apr 2007
ISBN:9780973139693
publisher: Kegedonce Press

that tongued belonging

by Marilyn Dumont

tagged: indigenous, women authors, nature
Description

From award-winning Métis poet Marilyn Dumont comes that tongued belonging, a collection of poems which search for acceptance in language, culture, love and geographical landscapes. These poems celebrate the humour and tenacity of Indigenous women, lament the death of a mother and recall the degradation of Indigenous women, while challenging accepted ideas of love, age and femininity. that tongued belonging was the winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Anskohk Aboriginal Book of the Year Award.

About the Author

Marilyn Dumont is a Metis writer who was born and raised on Metis Road Allowance in small town Alberta. She is the author of A Really Good Brown Girl (Winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award- League of Canadian Poets), green girl dreams Mountains (Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry - Writers Guild of Alberta), that tongued belonging (Winner McNally Robinson Poetry Book of the Year and McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year), The Pemmican Eaters (Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry - Writers Guild of Alberta, and forthcoming collection coming in 2024. Marilyn’s work has been widely anthologized, represented in artwork and poetry installations. She has received the Alberta Lieutenant Governor General’s Distinguished Artist’s Award and the League of Canadian Poets Lifetime Membership Award. Marilyn was guest anthologist for The Best Canadian Poetry 2020.

Awards
  • Winner, Anskohk Aboriginal Book Award
  • Winner, McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award
Editorial Review

http://www.buriedinprint.com/a-really-good-brown-girl-marilyn-dumont/"Marilyn Dumont articulates, touches and settles the nerve of Cree. The reader wanders through the patched quilt life of families, of communities, of relatives and of the Cree nation itself. Always, we are immersed in ancient Cree ways as expressed in Cree-borrowed English. Brilliantly and lyrically presented we are forever reminded that Cree culture, Cree people have not been eradicated, quite the contrary, through Dumont's that tongued belonging we celebrate the renaissance, the transformation and the continuum of the poetics, being and heroism of the Cree."--Lee Maracle, author of Bobbi Lee "Everywhere wind-blown leaves turnreveal acimowina to this story-sharershe brings reality into beingbrings the heart to the ear.Thank you Marilyn for these gifts."--Louise Bernice Halfe, Sky Dancer, author of Blue Marrow

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