| This Is a Small Northern Town Contributor(s): Deerchild, Rosanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897289359 ISBN-13: 9781897289358 Publisher: Muses' Company OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.25 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Locality - Winnipeg, Manitoba - Geographic Orientation - Manitoba - Demographic Orientation - Small Town |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: this is a small northern town is the long-awaited, first full-length collection of poems by Rosanna Deerchild. These are poems about: what it means to be from the north; a town divided along color lines; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At its core, this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she finds comfort and escape. |
Contributor Bio(s): Deerchild, Rosanna: - Rosanna Deerchild is Cree from South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary magazines including Prairie Fire and CV2. Her work is being anthologized in Post-prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry (Talonbooks, 2005) and Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival (Sumach Press, 2003). She is the co-founder and remains a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective established in 1999. The collective, a group of Manitoba writers, has released two collections in print, urban kool and Bone Memory, and a live spoken word CD, Red City. For the last ten years, Rosanna has worked in print, radio and television journalism, specializing in Aboriginal issues, including several years as a producer and journalist for APTN. She has also performed live comedy and has written book reviews for the Winnipeg Free Press. Rosanna currently works as a broadcaster with NCI-FM and is a regular columnist with CBC |