In this Book
- (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Series: Laurier Poetry
(Re)Generation contains selected poetry by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm exploring a range of issues: from violence against Indigenous women and lands to Indigenous erotica and the joyous intimate encounters between bodies. From her earliest work in my heart is a stray bullet and Bloodriver Woman, through her spoken word works standing ground and A Constellation of Bones, Akiwenzie-Damm’s poetry demonstrates how to represent Indigenous peoples in their full complexity, especially as it pertains to bodily pleasure, love, and loss.
Akiwenzie-Damm's afterword speaks to the relations and obligations Indigenous peoples have to one another and their other-than-human kin, as she reflects on the resilient work that Indigenous creative work has done and continues to do in spite of colonial violence. She stakes a claim for the necessity of poetry in the face of ongoing colonialism, not only in the present but in the future and for the generations to come. The introduction by Dallas Hunt locates Akiwenzie-Damm within the field of Indigenous literature and meditates on her influence on the field of Indigenous erotica.
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm writes in service of Indigenous brilliance, love, intimacy, and joy, and speaks with an unwavering voice, one that, to paraphrase Akiwenzie-Damm herself, “shakes the earth.”
- poetry by an Indigenous woman in the context of the media attention to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women inquiry
- Akiwenzie-Damm's poetry addresses issues having to do with resource extraction, another topical issue
- aspects of the book deal with Indigenous erotica, first of this type of poetry in the Laurier Poetry series
- Akiwenzie-Damm is a spoken-word poet, a popular form of poetry
Table of Contents
- Biographical Note
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xx
- From Without Reservations
- fish head soup
- p. 1
- From standing ground
- this earth a burial ground
- pp. 4-5
- my wild horses
- pp. 8-9
- dry season
- p. 10
- slash n burn
- pp. 12-13
- From Canadian Literature
- driving to santafe
- pp. 14-15
- From Trout 8
- fishing lines
- pp. 16-18
- Waabigonii Giizis
- p. 19
- From Bloodriver Woman
- penance for the dead
- p. 24
- last rites
- p. 25
- From my heart is a stray bullet
- to you who would wage war against me
- pp. 27-28
- my grandmothers
- pp. 32-33
- the book you left: in memory
- pp. 34-35
- river song
- p. 36
- lovers' psalm
- p. 39
- alternatives: one two three
- pp. 41-42
- poem without end #3
- pp. 43-44
- From Turtle Island to Aotearoa
- pp. 46-49
- From A Constellation of Bones
- Coming Together
- p. 50
- Across the Universe
- pp. 53-55
- Previously Unpublished
- boil water advisory
- p. 56
- telling story
- p. 57
- Glossary of Māori Terms
- pp. 67-68
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 69-70
- Books in the Laurier Poetry Series
- pp. 71-73
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2021