Rita Moir. BUFFALO JUMP: A Woman's Travels. Coteau 1999.
Love this Canadian non-fiction about writing, women's stories, and travelling territory so familiar to me--#3 highway past Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump to Medicine Hat, driving side roads to Winnipeg and beyond. Love the image of her writing meandering like the old Assiniboine River with its braids, oxbows, and wide deep valleys. Love the motif of the buffalo and putting on the skin, the robes, the clothes of the past. Love the truth that "the voices won't come to you unless you sleep alone." Sigh.
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
Waiting For Saskatchewan
Fred Wah. Waiting For Saskatchewan. Turnstone, 1985.
A very interesting selection of poems and prose-poems exploring grief, memory, genealogy. Some I found incomprehensible, but others were touching, revealing. Especially the China travels and the Elite series. A reminder that "mixed" is not always "Metis" and that identity is most likely a universal quest only complicated by race[s].
A very interesting selection of poems and prose-poems exploring grief, memory, genealogy. Some I found incomprehensible, but others were touching, revealing. Especially the China travels and the Elite series. A reminder that "mixed" is not always "Metis" and that identity is most likely a universal quest only complicated by race[s].
Friday, December 2, 2016
Embers
Embers. J.M. Bridgeman. Jade Mountain Books, 2016.
My display for the Family History Show
& Tell last weekend in Cloverdale. These are some of the objects
which inspired me to weave them into an imagined story for my novel
EMBERS. Just arrived. Available on Amazon.ca and (next week) at
Baker's Books in Hope, BC. EMBERS, set in BC and in Ireland, is
likely to appeal to open-minded older women interested in art and
travel.
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