Apprenticed to Justice (Earthworks Series) [Paperback]

Kimberly Blaeser (Author)

Book Description

Series: Earthworks Series | Publication Date: February 20, 2007

Through detailed images of ancestors and wilderness places, through renderings of story, tribal history, and family ritual, award-winning Anishinaabe author Kimberly Blaeser explores our mesh of tangled origins. Apprenticed to Justice is a collection of vividly rendered lyrical and narrative poems that trace the complex inheritances of 21st century Native America.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Blaeser honors the complexity of identity, land and humanity." -- Winona LaDuke

"This is a gorgeous book. It's musical and strange." -- Sherman Alexie

"This is a sure-handed work of impressive maturity and beauty." -- Tracy Ryan

"This is an impressive and accomplished collection of poetic delivery we can truly feast upon." -- Allison Hedge Coke

About the Author

Kimberly Blaeser is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and American Nature Writing. Her publications include two books of poetry Trailing You, winner of the first book award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, and Absentee Indians and Other Poems, as well as a scholarly study, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. Of Anishinaabe ancestry and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who grew up on the White Earth Reservation, Blaeser is also the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Her most recent critical publication is a 100-page essay on Native poetry, "Cannons and Canonization," in The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States. Kim lives with her husband and two young children in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons township Wisconsin.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Salt Publishing (February 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844712818
• ISBN-13: 978-1844712816
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #924,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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