Singing Home the Bones
Raincoast Books
Available: 10/12/05
5.34 x 8
9781551927879
CDN $18.95
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Award-winning poet Gregory Scofield's first book in five years is mature, powerful and ambitious. It reclaims through poetry and storytelling the untold history of the Metis people and Scofield's own biological family-in particular, Scofield's mysterious father, whom he discovers to be Jewish. A startling mix of narrative and lyric, deeply rooted in Metis culture, here is a book that takes the reader on an unforgettable physical and spiritual quest.
"A young and exciting poet who will make our journey easier." --Maria Campbell, author of Halfbreed
"These poems bring the gift of light and affirmation with a lyrical intensity that astonishes." --Patrick Lane on Native Canadiana
"These songs are so beautiful they are dangerous." --Joy Harjo on Love Medicine
Gregory Scofield (Calgary) is a Metis poet, writer, activist and community worker whose maternal ancestry can be traced back five generations to the Red River Settlement and to Kinesota, Manitoba. He has published four much-praised and award-winning books of poetry as well as a memoir, Thunder in My Veins: Memories of a Metis Childhood. He teaches First Nations and Metis poetry at Brandon University in Manitoba.
