{"product_id":"bear-bones-feathers-paperback","title":"Bear Bones \u0026 Feathers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouise B. Halfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this new edition of her powerful debut, Plains Cree writer and National Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe - Sky Dancer reckons with personal history within cultural genocide.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmploying Indigenous spirituality, black comedy, and the memories of her own childhood as healing arts, celebrated poet Louise B. Halfe - Sky Dancer finds an irrepressible source of strength and dignity in her people. \u003ci\u003eBear Bones and Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e offers moving portraits of Halfe's grandmother (a medicine woman whose life straddled old and new worlds), her parents (both trapped in a cycle of jealousy and abuse), and the people whose pain she witnessed on the reserve and at residential school.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginally published by Coteau Books in 1994, \u003ci\u003eBear Bones and Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e won the Milton Acorn People's Poet Award, and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer\u003c\/b\u003e was raised on Saddle Lake Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eBear Bones \u0026amp; Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e, received the 1996 Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award and was a finalist for the Spirit of Saskatchewan Award, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. \u003ci\u003eBlue Marrow\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 1998 Governor General's Award for Poetry. \u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Good\u003c\/i\u003e won the First Peoples' Publishing Award and the Saskatoon Book Award in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Her fourth book, \u003ci\u003eBurning in This Midnight Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2017 Saskatchewan Book Award and the Raymond Souster Award, among numerous other awards. In 2018, as part of the Laurier Poetry Series, her previously published works were compiled in \u003ci\u003eSôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe\u003c\/i\u003e (edited by David Gaertner). Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eawâsis - kinky and dishevelled\u003c\/i\u003e. Halfe was Saskatchewan's Poet Laureate for 2005-2006, was awarded the Latner Writers Trust Award for her body of work in 2017, and was awarded the 2020 Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. She trained at Nechi Institute as a facilitator, has a Bachelor of Social Work, was granted a lifetime membership in the League of Canadian Poets, and has received three honorary doctorates. In January of 2021, Louise was selected to be Canada's 9th Parliamentary Poet Laureate, serving until December 2022. She currently works with Elders in the organization Opikinawasowin (\"raising our children\") and lives on the Prairies with her husband, Peter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 154\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351995793657,"sku":"9781771315784","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/N0hNMjdTMWNpR3dXL01Zb2puZ0o3Zz09.webp?v=1769805369","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bear-bones-feathers-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}