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Halfe, Louise, 1953-
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Canadian poetry -- First Nations authors.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Halfe, Louise, 1953-
Canadian poetry -- First Nations authors.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
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Sôhkêyihta : the poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe / selected with an introduction by
David
Gaertner
; and an afterword by Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe.
by
Halfe, Louise, 1953-
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018.
Call #:
819.16 H169s
Subjects
Canadian poetry -- First Nations authors.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Series
Laurier poetry series.
ISBN:
9781771123495 (pbk.)
Description:
xx, 92 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes some words in Cree.
Summary:
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, aimed at helping readers move forward from the darkness into a place of healing. Halfe's own afterword is an evocative meditation on the Cree word sôhkêyihta: Have courage. Be brave. Be strong. She writes of coming into her practice as a poet and the stories, people, and experiences that gave her courage and allowed her to construct her "lair." She also reflects on her relationship with nêhiyawêwin, the Cree language, and the ways in which it informs her relationships and poetics. The introduction by
David
Gaertner
situates Halfe's writing within the history of whiteness and colonialism that works to silence and repress Indigenous voices.
Gaertner
pays particular attention to the ways in which Halfe addresses, incorporates, and pushes back against silence, and suggests that her work is an act of bearing witness - what Kwagiulth scholar Sarah Hunt identifies as making Indigenous lives visible. Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe is nêhiyaw poet raised on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Alberta. She served as poet Laureate in Saskatchewan for two years.
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.
Genre:
Canadian poetry.
Other authors:
Gaertner
,
David
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