Items related to Exploding Chippewas

Exploding Chippewas - Softcover

Turcotte, Mark

  • 4.25 out of 5 stars
    53 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780810151239: Exploding Chippewas
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0810151235 ISBN 13: 9780810151239
Publisher: TriQuarterly, 2002

Synopsis

The stunning classic from the 6th Illinois Poet Laureate

Everything this poet touches is volatile—the poet himself, the people and world around him, ideas and mythologies, the ghosts of memory and the dream of possible futures, all seem to burst into fragments. Mark Turcotte uses poetry to gather up the pieces—the shards of joy and grief, peace and doubt, strength and temptation, questions and answers—as he tries to define and rediscover what is lost when everyday life becomes explosive.
 

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

MARK TURCOTTE (Turtle Mountain Band Anishinaabe) is the 6th Illinois Poet Laureate. He spent his earliest years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation and in the migrant camps of the western United States. Later, he grew up in and around Lansing, Michigan.

Arriving in Chicago in the spring of 1993 Turcotte rediscovered his love of words and writing and quickly established himself as a unique voice in the city’s thriving poetry scene. That summer he was winner of the First Gwendolyn Brooks Open-mic Poetry Award.

Turcotte is author of The Feathered Heart, Songs of Our Ancestors, Road Noise, Le Chant de la Route, and Exploding Chippewas (Northwestern University Press). His work has appeared in many national and international literary journals and is included in the new and first ever Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. Turcotte was the recipient of a 2001-2002 Lannan Foundation Literary Completion Grant.

In 2008 he completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Western Michigan University. After graduation he served as the 2008-2009 Visiting Native Writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He again lives in Chicago and, since 2009, has been Senior Lecturer and Distinguished-Writer-In-Residence in the English Dept at DePaul University.
 

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
TriQuarterly
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0810151235
ISBN 13 
9780810151239
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
83
Rating
  • 4.25 out of 5 stars
    53 ratings by Goodreads