Glass Tepee - Softcover

Gottfriedson, Garry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894345479 ISBN 13: 9781894345477

Publisher: Thistledown Pr Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

A passionate and provocative collection of poetry, Glass Tepee finds its roots in the experiences and traditions of Canada's first peoples. Some pieces draw on the landscape, philosophy and culture of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) territory and original inhabitants, while others comment on Aboriginal reserve politics and the complicated realities experienced by Natives in urban centres.

Critical and compassionate, Gottfriedson's imagination is infused with a contemporary political and cultural awareness that is disarming and unpretentious.

About this title

About the Author:

Garry Gottfriedson was born, raised and lives in Kamloops, British Columbia, and currently works as a councillor for the Kamloops Indian Band, as an instructor at the University College of the Cariboo, and as a self-employed rancher. He holds a Masters Degree in Education from Simon Fraser University, and was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Creative Writing Scholarship by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied with Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. He has read from his work across North America and Europe, and his writings have been anthologized and published nationally and internationally. He is the author of In Honour of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival (Theytus Books 1994) and One Hundred Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society 1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Thistledown Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1894345479
• ISBN 13: 9781894345477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94