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Heid E. Erdrich

Auteur van New Poets of Native Nations

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Collaborative artist, filmmaker, and independent curator Heid E. Erdrich teaches in the low-residency MKA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College, She is the author of five collections of poetry including National Monuments, which won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, toon meer North Dakota, and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. toon minder
Fotografie: Author Heid E. Erdrich at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74325475

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This is the third collection of Erdrich's that I've read, and each one just makes me want to read more!

I loved "The Coldness Was Coldness" taking on William Carlos Williams and his most famous (or at least most viral) poem of ice boxes and plums -- and the near-invisible wife implied therein. I loved "Oh - Terrible Movie!" watching "The Day After Tomorrow" in the midst of 2019's polar vortex, proud when their kid heckles the screen. but perhaps most of all I love the last two poems in the collection, "Dream of the Land-Based Future" and "Reprieve," that dream imagined futures that give reason for hope.

Heid E. Erdrich is so wonderful.
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greeniezona | Jun 15, 2023 |
Another of my Prairie Lights poetry purchases -- I had to pick this up when I saw it because of how much I liked the collection Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media. This is a very different collection, without all the QR codes, videos, and playlists, but I enjoyed it just as much, scribbling all kinds of notes down as I read.

I read this on a long drive to pick up our kids from my parents, and a few of these I just had to read aloud to my husband as he drove. The first two poems set up the collection and its theme of the tension between Native artifacts and monuments to the past and Native communities and people living today. The second poem, "Guidelines for the Treatment of Sacred Objects," is probably my favorite in the entire collection -- with its humor, dryness, deep empathy, and irritation.

There are also poems here that take your guts and give them a hard twist, most noticeably "Desecrate," which returns to punch to the word, and "Made in Toyland," which skewers consumerism, globalization, and wealth disparity.

This collection establishes Erdrich on my list of favorite living poets. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for more of her work.
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greeniezona | Nov 14, 2020 |
This is a collection of twenty one Native American poets from the Eastern seaboard to Alaska and Hawaii.

As with any omnibus, some of the poems really spoke to me; others less so. There were a few of the poets that I wondered if I did not have the cultural knowledge to appreciate their point of view.

It gave me many new-to-me poets to explore. I also appreciated the brief autobiographical notes that each author wrote at the end of the book. As each named some of their inspirations, it also provided another set of poets for me to explore.

Although I didn’t enjoy all the content, I give it 4 stars. It’s a treat as a jumping off place.
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streamsong | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 6, 2020 |
A great survey of a very diverse field. Some work that kicks back hard at settler bullshit; some that is much more contemplative and/or personal. Like any such collection I didn't love all of it, but I've ended up putting books by more than half of the features poets on my wishlist, which I think is great success for a compilation.
 
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eldang | 2 andere besprekingen | Apr 16, 2020 |

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