Songs for Discharming [Paperback]

Denise Sweet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1997

Poetry. Native American Studies. Winner of the North American Native Authors First Book Award and The Diane Decorah Award for Poetry. These pages take us on a rich and fascinating journey, transporting us through history on memory's voices, singing a new vision of the familiar. Though her subjects vary from a visit to the mission at White Earth to parking a car, Denise Sweet brings freshness to each. The poems leave markers where they have touched us, places we will return to to remember the startling beauty of a phrase, the quiet wisdom of a story, the good humor of our poet companion. She carries us to the brink of discovery; her words push us over -- Kim Blaeser, author of TRAILING YOU. This poem began five hundred years ago / this morning when I traced the numbers / of generations of our grandchildren, / Mr Columbus. The great -great-great-greats / of oppspring that discovered you (The 500-year-old Poem). Densie Sweet is an Anishinaabe enrolled at White Earth, and a professor of Humanist

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"These pages take us on a rich and fascinating journey, transporting us through history on memory's voices, singing a new vision of the familiar. Though her subjects vary from a visit to the mission at White Earth to parking a car, Denise Sweet brings freshness to each. The poems leave markers where they have touched us, places we will return to to remember the startling beauty of a phrase, the quiet wisdom of a story, the good humor of our poet companion. She carries us to the brink of discovery; her words push us over." -- Kim Blaeser, author of 'Trailing You'

The 500-year-old Poem
By The Sound Of It
Club Med At Uxmal, Yucatan
Constellations
Doing Time
Evelyn Searching: To My Sister
Fever Dreams
For Children Who Earn Time
Found Poem Or Sometimes I Hate My Job
Grace's Funeral
Here In America
Homing Song: Two Stanzas
In September: Ode To Tomatoes
Insomniac
Losing To The Breakfast Of Champions
Migration
Mission At White Earth
My Good Fortune
My Mother And I Had A Discussion One Day
The Origin Of Envy
Prayer For Women Filled With Grace
Song For Discharming
Still Born
To Know By Heart: Saulte St. Marie, October 1989
Trickster
Veteran's Dance, 1995
Water Poem: A Convergence
Winter Farm Auction
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 54 pages
• Publisher: Greenfield Review Press (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 091267895X
• ISBN-13: 978-0912678955
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,338,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A delightful romp through the Sentinel and the garden, May 11, 1998

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This review is from: Songs for Discharming (Paperback)

The imagery in Denise's poetry makes a person laugh and cry sometimes in the same poem. A contempory native perspective ranging from current events like the Oklahoma bombing tradegy to migration of the soul and the body.