Shortlisted for The Minnesota Book Awards 2006. Poems in The
Mother's Tongue move in images of the living world that include
plants and creatures both native and non-native to American
landscapes. These poems move via persona and personal lyric through
expressions of ambivalence about choosing the life of the body - of
womanhood and motherhood - through the strange realm of pregnancy
into the netherworld of the post-partum period and out into the
world again, into the enlarged world, the world at war, the world
of work and words. Finally these poems move to enter the world of
women as transformed within the love of language - of recovered
Ojibwe language and English renewed as first language in the mouths
of infants. These are poems that urge women to discover the power
of their own tongues as they teach speech - the sweet, salty, sour
and bitter desires - the taste on the mother's tongue.
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