Skin Like Mine (1st) - Couverture souple

Gottfriedson, Garry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1553801016 ISBN 13 : 9781553801016

Editeur : Ronsdale Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Skin Like Mine, Garry Gottfriedson offers a suite of poems that peel away the skin of contemporary first nations society to reveal an inside view of individual experience. Gottfriedson speaks of "minds full of anticipation" yet with "tongues pointing arrowheads." Today's youth, he says, are "afraid of themselves." He finds that both individuals and bands end in "tangles," that they write "nonsense words in the sand" or exploit images painted on rocks, those "the postmodern Indian calls / visual poetic expression." As the collection continues, however, Gottfriedson's love for the land emerges. He draws attention to the rape of the natural environment, the skin of Mother Earth, through clear-cut logging. He speaks of the damage caused by the pine beetle, of "forests being / eaten from the inside out." And here it is that Gottfriedson introduces the mysterious Horsechild, who is to prepare the drying racks for the returning salmon "so that beneath your skin / the mountains will be forever abundant" a prayer for us to protect the migrating salmon on their multi-year cycles, to protect the bears and eagles that feast upon them, so as to assure that the transformations will continue, that there will be abundance for both humans and the earth itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Garry Gottfriedson, a member of the Secwepemc first nation, was born, raised and still 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 Honour of Our Grandmothers (Theytus, 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, 1990), Glass Teepee (Thistledown, 2002), nominated for First People's Publishing Award 2004, Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing, 2005) and Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale, 2006). He has read from his work across North America and Europe, and more recently, in Taiwan. He is presently finishing his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ronsdale Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1553801016
• ISBN 13: 9781553801016
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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