| North End Love Songs Contributor(s): Vermette, Katherena (Author) |
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ISBN: 1897289766 ISBN-13: 9781897289761 Publisher: Muses' Company OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Australian & Oceanian - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2012493601 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.30 lbs) 108 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For Katherena Vermette, Winnipeg's North End is a neighbourhood of colourful birds, stately elms, and always wily rivers. It is where a brother's disappearance is trivialized by local media and police because he is young and aboriginal. It is also where young girls share secrets, movies, cigarettes, Big Gulps and stories of love&emdash;where a young mother full of both maternal trepidation and joy watches her small daughters as they play in the park. "In North End Love Songs, Katherena Vermette uses spare language and brief, telling sketches to illuminate the aviary of a prairie neighbourhood. Vermette's love songs are unconventional and imminent, an examination and a celebration of family and community in all weathers, the beautiful as well as the less clement conditions. This collection is a very moving tribute, to the girls and the women, the boys and the men, and the loving trouble that has forever transpired between us." &endash; Joanne Arnott "From a mixed-blood M?tis woman with Mennonite roots, Kate weaves a story that winds its way through the north end (Nor-tend) of Winnipeg. It's a story of death, birth, survival, beauty and ugliness; through it all there are glimmers of hope, strength, and a will to survive whatever this city throws at you." &endash; Duncan Mercredi |
Contributor Bio(s): Vermette, Katherena: - Katherena Vermette is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of M?tis descent and from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was a MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her children's picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by Portage and Main Press in 2015. In addition to her own publications, her work has also been published in the literary anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, and edited the anthology xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country in 2011. Vermette has described her writing as motivated by an activist spirit, particularly on First Nations issues. The title of her book refers to Winnipeg's North End. |