A bow forged from ash /
"A Bow Forged from Ash is a journey of Indigenous reclamation. In poems that explore identity, belonging, responsibility and wholeness, Melissa Powless Day navigates her ties to the landscapes of Southwestern Ontario and the nations to which she belongs. Traversing lived experience, ancestral m...
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Windsor, Ontario :
Palimpsest Press : Anstruther Books,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- Nock Northern Lights
- Moccasin Poem
- Displace
- Refraction
- This is not a discovery
- Blood Memory
- Bezhgoozhi
- Moccasin Walk
- Rough Cut
- Winter Roads
- Time Travel
- Field Poem 1
- (Plane Crash)
- Pull
- Axiology : A Paper
- Advice from my mother on a dreamwalk
- My Mother's Buffet
- Choke in the Throat
- Gabian Peanut Soup
- Hollowpoint Indifference
- I wake
- Plough Depth
- They tried to erase us so deep
- State of Being
- Tree Museum
- Field Poem 2
- Loose
- Deshkan Ziibing Wiingashk
- Coyotesong
- Wiingashk Sunlight
- Where we converge
- What the land asks of us
- Muskrat Teaching
- The Castle
- To the wolf spider in my garden
- We Rescue Dogs
- Coming back to the round dance
- Starlight Tour
- That one about coyote-wolf and the spring flowers
- Primitive language
- Letter to a father I never got to know
- Field Poem 3
- Indian Acts
- Nanda-Gikendawin (The Seeking).