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that tongued belonging Paperback – April 30 2007
From award-winning Métis poet Marilyn Dumont comes that tongued belonging, a collection of poems which search for acceptance in language, culture, love and geographical landscapes. These poems celebrate the humour and tenacity of Indigenous women, lament the death of a mother and recall the degradation of Indigenous women, while challenging accepted ideas of love, age and femininity. that tongued belonging was the winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year Award and the Anskohk Aboriginal Book of the Year Award.
- Print length57 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherKegedonce Press
- Publication dateApril 30 2007
- Dimensions15.16 x 0.53 x 22.58 cm
- ISBN-100973139692
- ISBN-13978-0973139693
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Metis poet, writer, and professor, Marilyn Dumont, teaches for the faculties of Arts and Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her four collections of poetry have won either provincial or national awards: A Really Good Brown Girl (1996); green girl dreams Mountains (2001); that tongued belonging (2007); The Pemmican Eaters (2015). She was awarded 2018 Lifetime Membership from the League of Canadian Poets for her contributions to poetry in Canada, and in 2019, awarded the University of Alberta Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Alberta Lieutenant Governor's Distinguished Artist Award.
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- Publisher : Kegedonce Press (April 30 2007)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 57 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0973139692
- ISBN-13 : 978-0973139693
- Item weight : 136 g
- Dimensions : 15.16 x 0.53 x 22.58 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #633,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #480 in Nature Poems
- #1,775 in Poetry by Women
- #2,378 in Indigenous Peoples Studies
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