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1 online resource |
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Crow Said Poetry |
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Crow said poetry.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Dramatis Historicae (Negro) -- RIVERS -- The Negro Speaks of Alberta -- What We Used to Call It -- The Peace -- Notice -- The Athabasca -- Grown in Alberta -- The Bow -- King Kong on the Prairies -- Past the Surface of Whiteness -- Another River -- The Battle versus the Red Deer -- Noticing -- ON THE PRAIRIES -- Clark Kent on the Prairies -- Now I'm Looking, Now I'm Unaware -- Christopher Columbus on the Prairies -- Louis Armstrong on the Prairies -- Alberta Presents Big Miller -- "So What?" -- Sylvester Long on the Prairies |
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Three Mills on the Prairies: Henry Mills, Specialized in Trades -- Three Mills on the Prairies: Dave Mills, on the Edge of the Reserve -- Three Mills on the Prairies: Harry Mills, the Music is Passing -- Milk River -- The Last Step -- NOW I'M THE ONE THAT'S LOOKING -- These Empty Flatlands -- The Wrongness of a Word -- The Magpie's Place -- The North Saskatchewan -- The Lingering Look -- Henry Bibb on the Prairies -- The Oldman -- Second Sightings -- Don't Forget These Things -- Harlem Farming -- Space Overhungry for City -- ACCIDENTAL AGRICULTURE -- Language Like Holes -- Out of Darkness |
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Seeing Only Absence -- Teen Preaching -- The Invisible Man on the Prairies -- The Typical Spirit -- Seed Catalogue -- Because its Season is Short -- Hattie McDaniel on the Prairies -- The Blindman -- Accidental Agriculture -- Noticed -- A Note on Names -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
"Bertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often overlooked contributions to the province's character and provides personal perspectives on the question of black identity on the prairies. Through these rousing and evocative poems, Bickersteth uses language to call up the contours of the land itself, land that is at once mesmerizing as it is dismissively effacing. Such is black identity here on this paradoxical land, too."-- Back cover |
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Black people -- Alberta -- Poetry
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Black people
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Alberta
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781774390078 |
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1774390078 |
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