Divided into four sections, and written in her distinctively lean and elegantly spare style, where short lines belie the depth within them, river woman explores Vermette's relationship to nature its destructive power and beauty, its timelessness, and its place in human history.
Details
ISBN: 9781487003463
Physical Description:101 pages ; 22 cmprint
Publisher:Toronto : House of Anansi, 2018.
Formatted Contents Note: Black river -- Pieces -- Breathe -- River -- Lake -- Black river -- Ghosts -- Tongues -- Scars -- Arch -- A fine dust -- Speak -- Anishnaabenoowin -- Cocoon -- Inches -- Crowfight -- Broken -- Red River -- Ziibiwan (like a river) -- River woman -- Riveredge -- Riverdawn -- Riverevening -- Riverlove -- Riverstory -- Riverlocks -- Where -- Riversong -- Riverceremony -- This river -- An other story -- New Year's Eve 2013 -- Uncarved -- Another winter -- How to argue -- I come from a place that -- Métissage/Métis Sage -- When Louis Riel went crazy -- Bury me at Batoche -- Long winter poem -- I write you into every word every -- An other story.