
The Feathered Heart
Mark Turcotte(Author)
Michigan State University Press
Published on 31. May 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-87013-482-1 (ISBN)
Description
This revised and expanded edition of The Feathered Heart, Mark Turcotte's celebrated collection of Native American poetry, brings traditional oral culture to print. Torn, painful, vibrant, and full of hope, his poetry weaves together the multilayered and textured fabric of contemporary Native American urban and rural existence. Appropriately, each poem in The Feathered Heart possesses a deeply lyrical quality. Raw emotion echoes in Turcotte's voice, in his verse, in the things he sees. "Ten Thousand Thousand Bones," for example, "a poem about the desecration of Native American burial sites and objects by archeologists," is dedicated "to an ancient woman taken from the Earth near New Lenox, Illinois in the winter 1993/94."
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
113 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-482-1 (9780870134821)
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Feathered Heart
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Feathered Heart
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Person
Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Band Anishinaabe) was named Illinois Poet Laureate 2025-29. He spent his earliest years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation and in the migrant camps of the western United States. Later, he grew up in and around Lansing, Michigan. He was the winner of the First Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Poetry Award. Turcotte is author of The Feathered Heart; Songs of Our Ancestors; a chapbook, Road Noise; a bilingual collection, Le Chant de la Route; and ExplodingChippewas. His work has appeared in many national and international literary journals and is included in the new and first-ever Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. Turcotte was the recipient of a 2001-2002 Lannan Foundation Literary Completion Grant. He lives in Chicago, where he is distinguished Writer-In-Residence at DePaul University.
Content
Contents
Introduction
The Eye Shakes
Horse and Cradle
Tiny Warriors
Flies Buzzing
True Sign
Indian Boys
Room Still Full of Death
Father's Dust
Window Glass
Unshadow
Sky Breathes Sky
Flying With the Wind
Horse Dance
Recognize Stepfather
And Betty Jean
Under Gray Gods
Folded Down
Animal Shadows
Indio
Leads You To Water
The Boy Dances
Angels We
Hands
This Wind
The Flower On
Feather
Wedding
Amber On Opal
Rain Rain
Chippewa Hitch Hike
Arrow, Humming
Motherdrum
Ten Thousand Thousand Bones
Brother River Dreams Cyrus Calls For His Pony
Last Drink
Half Blood
Song for the Endless Others
The Poets Coming
Growler
Winter
Foreign Shore
Introduction
The Eye Shakes
Horse and Cradle
Tiny Warriors
Flies Buzzing
True Sign
Indian Boys
Room Still Full of Death
Father's Dust
Window Glass
Unshadow
Sky Breathes Sky
Flying With the Wind
Horse Dance
Recognize Stepfather
And Betty Jean
Under Gray Gods
Folded Down
Animal Shadows
Indio
Leads You To Water
The Boy Dances
Angels We
Hands
This Wind
The Flower On
Feather
Wedding
Amber On Opal
Rain Rain
Chippewa Hitch Hike
Arrow, Humming
Motherdrum
Ten Thousand Thousand Bones
Brother River Dreams Cyrus Calls For His Pony
Last Drink
Half Blood
Song for the Endless Others
The Poets Coming
Growler
Winter
Foreign Shore