Naomi McIlwraith: Kiyâm, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Klappentext

What do you think of me, Dad,

writing this in Cree?

Could there have been more room

for a Cree conversation,

for a Cree understanding,

for a daughter's understanding

her father's honour

in the space between, tawâyihk,

your childhood and your passing.

Is it enough that I've

cleared a space on my desk

to light this candle for you?

Would that I could

have made more room.

nipakosêyimon kahkî-tawinamâtân.

Through poems that move between the two languages, McIlwraithexplores the beauty of the intersection between nêhiyawêwin ,the Plains Cree language, and English, âkayâsîmowin . Writtento honour her father's facility in nêhiyawêwin and hermother's beauty and generosity as an inheritor of Cree, Ojibwe, Scottish, and English, kiyâm articulates a powerful yearningfor family, history, peace, and love.