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Winner of 1997 Gerald Lampert Award for first book of poetry (League of Canadian Poets), Globe 100 book 1997 and Honourable Mention in the 1997 VanCity Book Prize Marilyn Dumont's Metis heritage offers her challenges that few of us welcome. Here she turns them to opportunities: in a voice that is fierce, direct, and true, she explores and transcends the multiple boundaries imposed by society of the self. She mocks, with exasperation and sly humour,...
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A picture of the Riel Resistance from one of Canada's preeminent Métis poets. With a title derived from John A. Macdonald's moniker for the Métis, The Pemmican Eaters explores Marilyn Dumont's sense of history as the dynamic present. Combining free verse and metered poems, her latest collection aims to recreate a palpable sense of the Riel Resistance period and evoke the geographical, linguistic/cultural, and political situation of Batoche during...
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