Reclamation and Resurgence

Marilyn Dumont

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Country
CA
Published
16 April 2024
Pages
112
ISBN
9781771126090

Reclamation and Resurgence

Marilyn Dumont

To describe the writing of Marilyn Dumont is to call her a poet of reclamation and resurgence. Some thirty-five years ago she set about documenting her life as a young Metis woman and telling the story of her people, the Red River Metis, and, in the process, she has become a principal literary voice for the "Renaissance" of the Metis nation. To understand Marilyn Dumont's work is to understand Metis culture and history, that of a people who originated in the 17thth century upon the meeting of the First Nations and the newcomers, the European voyageurs and cartographers who travelled along the great waterways of Turtle Island/ North America.How does a Metis poet write about a country where its politicians and bureaucrats are honoured as national figures when they made family fortunes from confiscated Metis and First Nations lands? For Dumont, the answer to this question resides in telling the truth, about the present and the past. Through carefully crafted poems, Dumont takes the reader through a range of personal and historically connected experiences grounded in emotional truth. For Dumont, perception, like memory, is as much about the body as it is the mind, surfacing as visionary insight, which has become the hallmark of her poetry.

Reclamation and Resurgence contains poems selected from A Really Good Brown Girl, green girl dreams Mountains, from that tongued belonging, and The Pemmican Eaters, as well as previously uncollected poems, and includes an introduction by Armand Garnet Ruffo and an afterword, "Contradictory Co-existence," by Marilyn Dumont.

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