Songs, blood deep /
With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words. In this moving collection, Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective, one that connects the painful past an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Dakota Cherokee Spanish |
| Language Notes: | Most poems in English, with some poems in Dakota, Cherokee and Spanish. |
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Duluth, Minnesota :
Holy Cow! Press,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words. In this moving collection, Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective, one that connects the painful past and the hard-fought future of her Dakota homeland. Grounded in vivid story and memory, Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with "more than history." An intense homage to the power of place, this book tells a masterful story of cultural survival and the power of language. |
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| Physical Description: | 73 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781737405146 1737405148 |