Mother’s Tongue
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Earthworks
ISBN-10
1844710602
ISBN-13
9781844710607
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Imprint
Salt Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2005
Print length
120 Pages
Weight
172 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.10 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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Shortlisted for The Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems that consider and figure women’s experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe language recovery.
Shortlisted for The Minnesota Book Awards 2006Poems in The Mother’s Tongue move in images of the living world that include plants and creatures both native and non-native to American landscapes. These poems move via persona and personal lyric through expressions of ambivalence about choosing the life of the body – of womanhood and motherhood – through the strange realm of pregnancy into the netherworld of the post-partum period and out into the world again, into the enlarged world, the world at war, the world of work and words. Finally these poems move to enter the world of women as transformed within the love of language – of recovered Ojibwe language and English renewed as first language in the mouths of infants. These are poems that urge women to discover the power of their own tongues as they teach speech – the sweet, salty, sour and bitter desires – the taste on the mother’s tongue.
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