Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word ""weweni""
expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the
word for ""relatives"" is ""nindenwemaaganag"": those whose
""enewewe,"" or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret
Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual
collection. Noodin's warm and perceptive poems were written first
in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear
translated on facing pages in English. From planetary tracking to
political contrasts, stories of ghosts, and messages of trees, the
poems in Weweni use many images to speak to the interconnectedness
of relationships, moments of difficulty and joy, and dreams and
cautions for the future. As poems move from Anishinaabemowin to
English, the challenge of translation offers multiple levels of
meaning-English meanings found in Anishinaabe words long as rivers
and knotted like nets, English approximations that bend the
dominant language in new directions, and sets of signs and ideas
unable to move from one language to another. In addition to the
individual dialogues played out beween Noodin's poems, the
collection as a whole demonstrates a fruitful and respectful
dialogue between languages and cultures. Noodin's poems will be
proof to students and speakers of Anishinaabemowin that the
language can be a vital space for modern expression and, for those
new to the language, a lyric invitation to further exploration.
Anyone interested in poetry or linguistics will enjoy this
one-of-a-kind volume.
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