| Skin Like Mine Contributor(s): Gottfriedson, Garry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1553801016 ISBN-13: 9781553801016 Publisher: Ronsdale Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Native American - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.58" W x 8.96" (0.52 lbs) 122 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Native American Studies. SKIN LIKE MINE presents a suite of poems that peel away the skin of contemporary first nations society to reveal an inside view of individual experience. Today's youth, Gottfriedson says, are afraid of themselves. He finds that both individuals and bands end in tangles, that they write nonsense words in the sand or exploit images painted on rocks, those the postmodern Indian calls / visual poetic expression. As the collection continues, however, his love for the land emerges. He draws attention to the rape of the natural environment through clear-cut logging. He speaks of the damage caused by the pine beetle, of forests being / eaten from the inside out. And here it is that Gottfriedson introduces the mysterious Horsechild, who is to prepare the drying racks for the returning salmon so that beneath your skin / the mountains will be forever abundant: a prayer for us to protect the migrating salmon with their multi-year cycles, to protect the bears and eagles that feast upon them, so as to assure that the transformations will continue, that there will be abundance for both humans and the earth itself. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gottfriedson, Garry: - Garry Gottfriedson, a member of the Secwepemc first nation, was born, raised and still lives in Kamloops, BC. He is a self-employed rancher with a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University. He was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Creative Writing Scholarship by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied under Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Marianne Faithful and others. His published works include In Honour of Our Grandmothers (Theytus, 1994), 100 Years of Contact (Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, 1990), Glass Teepee (Thistledown, 2002), nominated for First People's Publishing Award 2004, Painted Pony (Partners in Publishing, 2005) and Whiskey Bullets (Ronsdale, 2006). He has read from his work across North America and Europe, and more recently, in Taiwan. He is presently finishing his first novel. |
