AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN INDIAN POETRY (1977)
Edited by David Day and Marilyn Bowering.
Be they Salish or Carrier, Cree or Shoshone, Algonquin or
Micmac, the thirty-four Canadian Indian poets represented
here all have something in common – they are forging new
language and new visions. Some poems are traditional
oratory, storytelling and religion; some are political
decrying poverty, disease and violence; others are as
experimental as concrete poetry. All are rich in challenge,
for these poets have learned the limitations of white
culture and returned to take what they find best from their
heritage.
Many Voices was the first anthology of poetry by living
native Indian poets ever to have been published in Canada. A
project first conceived in 1972, the editors found that
although publishers were enthusiastically marketing books by
white authors about dead Indians, they were quite
condescending about the value of an anthology of literature
by living aboriginal people. It now seems absurd,
considering the obvious contribution of aboriginal art and
literature to our nations cultural evolution, but it took
the editors five stubborn years to find a publisher who saw
the value in a book that gave a living voice to the people
of Canada’s first nations.
The poets are: Benjamin Abel, Marcia Anderson, Jeannette
Armstrong Bonneau, Skyros Bruce, George Clutesi, Eleanor
Crowe, Shirley Daniels, Pauline Doore, Jim Dumont, Marty
Dunn, Sheila Erickson, Fred Favel, Rose Fleury, Cam Hubert,
Mary Jacobson, Edward John, Orville Keon, Ronald Keon, Wayne
Keon, Susan Landell, George Lezard, Loucheux, Mederic
McDougall, Joseph McLeod, Duke Redbird, James Redsky,
Mireille Sioui, Sarain Stump, Mary Augustus Tappage, Pierre
Vandale, Gordon Williams, Lydia Yellowbird, and Leo Yerxa.
- Unknown Binding: 98
pages
- Publisher: J. J.
Douglas (1977)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 088894134X
- ISBN-13:
978-0888941343
