Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont by Dumont, Marilyn

Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771126090)

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Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont by Dumont, Marilyn

Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont

$21.99
Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont by Dumont, Marilyn

Reclamation and Resurgence: The Poetry of Marilyn Dumont

$21.99
Format: Paperback
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To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ago she set about documenting her life as a young M?tis woman and telling the story of her people, the Red River M?tis, and, in the process, she has become a principal literary voice for the "Renaissance" of the M?tis nation. To understand Marilyn Dumont's work is to understand M?tis culture and history, that of a people who originated in the 17thth century upon the meeting of the First Nations and the newcomers, the European voyageurs and cartographers who travelled along the great waterways of Turtle Island/ North America.

How does a M?tis poet write about a country where its politicians and bureaucrats are honoured as national figures when they made family fortunes from confiscated M?tis and First Nations lands? For Dumont, the answer to this question resides in telling the truth, about the present and the past. Through carefully crafted poems, Dumont takes the reader through a range of personal and historically connected experiences grounded in emotional truth. For Dumont, perception, like memory, is as much about the body as it is the mind, surfacing as visionary insight, which has become the hallmark of her poetry.

Reclamation and Resurgence contains poems selected from A Really Good Brown Girl, green girl dreams Mountains, from that tongued belonging, and The Pemmican Eaters, as well as previously uncollected poems, and includes an introduction by Armand Garnet Ruffo and an afterword, "Contradictory Co-existence," by Marilyn Dumont.

Author: Marilyn Dumont
ISBN-10: 1771126094
ISBN-13: 9781771126090
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.83w x 0.39d
By Marilyn Dumont
By Marilyn Dumont
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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.
Armand Garnet Ruffo was born in Chapleau, northern Ontario, and draws on his Ojibwe heritage for his writing. He is the recipient of the 2020 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. His publications include Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing Into Thunderbird (2014) and Treaty # (2019), both finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards. He teaches at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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