| Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems Volume 70 Contributor(s): Erdrich, Heid E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816530084 ISBN-13: 9780816530083 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Native American - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2011042125 |
| Series: Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich's three previous poetry collections. Erdrich's new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and tradition, between spirit and body. She finds surprising common ground while exploring indigenous experience in multifaceted ways: personal, familial, biological, and cultural. The title, Cell Traffic, suggests motion and Erdrich considers multiple movements-cellular transfer, the traffic of DNA through body parts and bones, "migration" through procreation, and the larger "movements" of indigenousness and ancestral inheritance. Erdrich's wry sensibility, sly wit, and keenly insightful mind have earned her a loyal following. Her point of view is always slightly off center, and this lends a particular freshness to her poetry. The debunking and debating of the science of origins is one of Erdrich's focal subjects. In this collection, she turns her observational eye to the search for a genetic mother of humanity, forensic anthropology's quest for the oldest known bones, and online offers of genetic testing. But her interests are not limited to science. She freely admits popular culture into her purview as well, referencing sci-fi television series and Internet pop-up ads. |
Contributor Bio(s): Erdrich, Heid E.: - Collaborative artist, filmmaker, and independent curator Heid E. Erdrich teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program of Augsburg College. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including National Monuments, which won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. |