We Live Here by Lois Beardslee
Anishinaabe author Lois Beardslee shares how a life is lived within two cultures, revealing a worldview shaped by language and customs and expressed through verse both playful and somber. This collection of poems is a lattice of traditional wisdom, wordplay, and cunning modernity that forms a distinctive creative voice. Experiences of duality overlay an Anishinaabe annual cycle, emphasizing the practical nature of traditions and their dependence upon the landscape in which they develop over time. Poems like "Waatebagaagiizis" and "Gidanimibiisaa na" reveal the fortitude that maintains traditions against the encroaching backdrop of modernity. Others such as "Namegosag" and "Minowichige" playfully connect a moment's experience to the everyday practices that have endured, many through the author's own eyes, and others through kin spanning generations and cultures. These poems not only evoke a sense of spirit that transcends boundaries but they also bear traditional knowledge, notions of the seasons, and conceptions of how the spirit is shaped by nature.-
Blue-Tail Fly
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You're in the Wrong Place
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A Fine Canopy
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Know the Mother
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Of Blood and Rivers
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The Winds That Scatter
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Ragged Anthem
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Decoding the Hill of Dead Kings
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Lo-Fi Citadels
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Black Summers
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Making Callaloo in Detroit
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Night Manual
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American Salvage
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In the Bone-Cracking Cold
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REMNANTS and What Remains
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The Patron Saint of Lost Girls
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Spirography
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The Lake Huron Mermaid
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These Are Love(d) Letters
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What Can the Matter Be?
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Stilettos in a Rifle Range
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Grief's Country
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
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Words Like Thunder
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Gun/Shy
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When Our Fathers Return to Us As Birds
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Kin
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Weweni
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Love, Sex, and 4-H
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To Light a Fire
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Elemental
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Meet Behind Mars
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The Forgetting Tree
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Garden for the Blind
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Enough to Lose
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When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double
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I Have the Answer
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Rowing Inland
Lois Beardslee is an Anishinaabe author, illustrator, and poet from Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. Her works have received several nominations and awards, and in 2021 she was the first Native American author to receive Michigan's Notable Book Award for Words like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers (Wayne State University Press).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780814351468 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814351468 |
| Title | We Live Here |
| Author | Lois Beardslee |
| Series | Made In Michigan Writers Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
| Year published | 2024-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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