National Monuments Contributor(s): Erdrich, Heid E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870138480 ISBN-13: 9780870138485 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2008029585 |
Series: American Indian Studies |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Many of the poems in National Monuments explore bodies, particularly the bodies of indigenous women worldwide, as monuments--in life, in photos, in graves, in traveling exhibitions, and in plastic representations at the airport. Erdrich sometimes imagines what ancient bones would say if they could speak. Her poems remind us that we make monuments out of what remains--monuments are actually our own imaginings of the meaning or significance of things that are, in themselves, silent. |
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. |