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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: July 2018
ISBN:9781988449326
publisher:
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: July 2018
ISBN:9781988449326
publisher:
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Description
Translated from French by Howard Scott
In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language. On my left hip a face
I walk I walk upright like a shadow
a people on my hip a boatload of fruit and the dream inside women and children first
"A cry rises in me and transfigures me. The world waits for woman to come back as she was born: woman standing, woman powerful, woman resurgent. A call rises in me and I?ve decided to say yes to my birth."
Contributor Notes
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, born in 1991, is a slam poet, visual artist and indigenous rights activist. Innu of Pessamit community of the North Shore, she spent most of her life in urban areas, as did many other Aboriginal youth of her generation. She lives in Montreal.
Editorial Review
"Poetess, painter, actress, slammer ... Natasha Kanapé Fontaine speaks with a soft voice, but her words are powerful. In a few years, the young Innue has become a model for young people and for her community." ?La Presse
