Louise Bernice Halfe

Broschiertes Buch

Sôhkêyihta

The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe

Herausgeber: Gaertner, David

Beschreibung

Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe's work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous storytellers. Sà ¿hkà ªyihta includes searing poems, written across the expanse of Halfe's career.

Autor

Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe is nêhiyaw poet raised on the Saddle Lake Reserve in Alberta. She has travelled extensively nationally and internationally both as a poet and keynote speaker. She served as poet Laureate in Saskatchewan for two years and was given an honorary Ph.D. from Wilfrid Laurier University. In 2017 Halfe was awarded the Latner's Writers' Trust Poetry Prize for an exceptional body of work in the field of poetry. David Gaertner is a settler scholar of German descent and an instructor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, where he specializes in digital storytelling. He is also a co-editor of Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 188g
• ISBN-13: 9781771123495
• ISBN-10: 1771123494
• Artikelnr.: 49224375