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Poetry Indigenous

a beautiful rebellion

by (author) Rita Bouvier

Publisher
Thistledown Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2023
Category
Indigenous

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771872348
    Publish Date
    Apr 2023
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

These poems speak with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the struggle to try to find forgiveness for wrongs done to her people and the weariness of trying to redress those wrongs. a beautiful rebellion reaches one hand back to Louis Riel and one hand ahead to future Métis generations.

 

There is a quiet power—riverine, deep, unstoppable—that flows through these words

About the author

Rita Bouvier is an educator and a writer. She has published two collections of poetry with Thistledown Press, Blueberry Clouds (1999) and papîyâhtak (2004), and has been nominated for several Saskatchewan Book Awards. Bouvier's poetry has been translated into Spanish and German, and her work has appeared in literary anthologies and musical and television productions. In 2008 the Gabriel Dumont Institute published a collaborative children's book with artists Sherry Farrell-Racette and Margaret Gardiner and featuring the title poem from papîyâhtak titled Better That Way. Bouvier lives in Saskatoon.

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Editorial Reviews

“” joyful, exclamatory, uncynical poems that don—t shy from the imperative to really look, to commune, to tend toward love. The poems are a generous, multilingual response to art, family, community, Land and politics that rely on crystal clear images to advance the notion that “as long as we have more to enjoy / than another we have responsibility / to lift each other.”

Saskatchewan Writer's Guild's John V. Hicks Prize Jury

Other titles by Rita Bouvier

Resurgence

Engaging With Indigenous Narratives and Cultural Expressions In and Beyond the Classroom

edited by Katya Adamov Ferguson & Christine M'Lot
by (author) K.C. Adams, Sonya Ballantyne, Charlene Bearhead, Wilson Bearhead, Lisa Boivin, Rita Bouvier, Nicola I. Campbell, Sara Florence Davidson, Louise B. Halfe, Lucy Hemphill, Wanda John-Kehewin, Elizabeth LaPensee, Victoria McIntosh, Reanna Merasty, David A. Robertson, Russell Wallace & Christina Lavalley Ruddy

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt
contributions by Stella August, Tracy Bear, Robyn Bourgeois, Rita Bouvier, Maya Ode’amik Chacaby, Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group, Susan Gingell, Michelle Good, Laura Harjo, Sarah Hunt, Robert Alexander Innes, Beverly Jacobs, Tanya Kappo, Tara Kappo, Lyla Kinoshameg, Helen Knott, Sandra Lamouche, Jo-Anne Lawless, Debra Leo, Kelsey T. Leonard, Ann-Marie Livingston, Brenda Macdougall, Sylvia Maracle, Jenell Navarro, Darlene R. Okemaysim-Sicotte, Pahan Pte San Win, Ramona Reece, Kimberly Robertson, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Beatrice Starr, Madeleine Kétéskwew Dion Stout, Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy & Alex Wilson

nakamowin sa for the seasons

by (author) Rita Bouvier

Decolonizing Education

Nourishing the Learning Spirit

by (author) Marie Battiste
foreword by Rita Bouvier

Better That Way

by (author) Rita Bouvier
illustrated by Sherry Farrell Racette
translated by Margaret Hodgson

papiyahtak

by (author) Rita Bouvier

Resting Lightly on Mother Earth

The Aboriginal Experience in Urban Educational Settings

edited by Angela Ward & Rita Bouvier

Blueberry Clouds

by (author) Rita Bouvier