A Beautiful Rebellion - Paperback

by Rita Bouvier (Author)

These poems speak with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the struggle to try to find forgiveness for wrongs done to her people and the weariness of trying to redress those wrongs. a beautiful rebellion reaches one hand back to Louis Riel and one hand ahead to future Métis generations.

There is a quiet power?riverine, deep, unstoppable?that flows through these words

Author Biography

Rita Bouvier is a Métis writer and educator from Saskatchewan. Her third book of poetry, nakamowin?sa for the seasons (Thistledown Press, 2015) was the 2016 Saskatchewan Book Awards winner of the Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples? Writing Award. Rita's poetry has appeared in literary anthologies, journals ? print and online ? musicals, and television productions, and has been translated into Spanish, German and the Cree-Michif of her home community of sakitawak, Île-à-la-Crosse, situated on the historic trading and meeting grounds of Cree and Dene people.