Embers
One Ojibway's Meditations
Published on 25. May 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-1-77162-133-5 (ISBN)
Description
"In this carefully curated selection of everyday reflections, Richard Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in the bush--sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. Embers is perhaps Richard Wagamese's most personal volume to date. Honest, evocative and articulate, he explores the various manifestations of grief, joy, recovery, beauty, gratitude, physicality and spirituality--concepts many find hard to express. But for Wagamese, spirituality is multifaceted. Within these pages, readers will find hard-won and concrete wisdom on how to feel the joy in the everyday things. Wagamese does not seek to be a teacher or guru, but these observations made along his own journey to become, as he says, "a spiritual bad-ass," make inspiring reading."--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
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Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77162-133-5 (9781771621335)
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10/2016
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Richard Wagamese was one of Canada's foremost writers. His acclaimed, bestselling novels included Indian Horse—which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and made into a feature film—and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua, One Native Life, and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. His collection of personal reflections include Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes from Spirit, One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Plant and Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won numerous awards and recognition for his writing, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, the Canada Reads People's Choice Award, and the Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award. Wagamese died on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, British Columbia.