Sohkeyihta by Louise Bernice Halfe

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Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe's work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous storytellers. Sôhkêyihta includes searing poems, written across the expanse of Halfe's career.

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Sohkeyihta by Louise Bernice Halfe

Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe's work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous storytellers. Sohkeyihta includes searing poems, written across the expanse of Halfe's career.

In this collection, Halfe's fierce and incandescent poetry and voice, which have resonated with readers since the 1990s, are amplified and (if possible) intensified by her biographical afterword, in which she charts her writing life, her work to address legacies of pain, and a process of "spiritual enlightenment, intellectual observation, and emotional healing" The collection is also made all the more powerful by the foreword by settler scholar David Gaertner. Sôhkêyihta is an especially crucial collection for educators, scholars, and readers of Canadian poetry. Halfe offers readers a rich process through which to begin and continue to contend with the horrors and injustices that underpin settler colonialism in Canada. -- Renée Jackson-Harper, Canadian Literature 238

Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe is nêhiyaw poet raised on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Alberta. She has travelled extensively nationally and internationally both as a poet and keynote speaker. She served as poet Laureate in Saskatchewan for two years and was given an honorary Ph.D. from Wilfrid Laurier University. In 2017 Halfe was awarded the Latner's Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for an exceptional body of work in the field of poetry.

David Gaertner is a settler scholar of German descent and an instructor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, where he specializes in digital storytelling. He is also a co-editor of Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island.

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ISBN 13	9781771123495
ISBN 10	1771123494
Title	Sohkeyihta
Author	Louise Bernice Halfe
Series	Laurier Poetry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Year published	2018-04-30
Number of pages	88
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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