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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cunningham, Francine, 1984- author.
Uniform title:	Poems. Selections
Imprint:	Halfmoon Bay, BC : Caitlin Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	96 pages : portrait ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Caitlin Press (all titles, excluding YA and childrens)
Subject:	Indigenous peoples -- Poetry. Mental illness -- Poetry. Indians of North America -- Canada -- Poetry. Indians of North America. Mental illness. Indigenous peoples. Canada. Poetry poetry. Poetry. Poetry.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12714119

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ISBN:	9781773860169 177386016X
Notes:	Poems. Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (April 11, 2021) http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx
Summary:	"Francine Cunningham lives with constant reminders that she doesn't fit the desired expectations of the world: she is a white-passing, city-raised Indigenous woman with mental illness who has lost her mother. In her debut poetry collection On/Me, Cunningham explores, with keen attention and poise, what it means to be forced to exist within the margins. Cunningham does not hold back: she holds a lens to residential schools, intergenerational trauma, Indigenous Peoples forcibly sent to sanatoriums, systemic racism and mental illness, and translates these topics into lived experiences that are nuanced, emotional, funny and heartbreaking all at once. On/Me is an encyclopedia of Cunningham, who shares some of her most sacred moments with the hope to spark a conversation that needs to be had."--

Table of Contents:

On how to keep on living / Passing
On identity / Origin of a designation
On mental illness / Lists
On tradition / Camping
On love / Love letter I
On family / Mother
On teasing / Aunties
On mental illness / Fault lines
On identity / Descriptions of self from outside of self
On TV / Pocahontas
On love / Love letter II
On tradition / Doorways
On mental illness / Bipolarism on the axis
On purpose / When not writing I
On mental illness / Nothing of worth
On food / Bannock
On family / Grandmother
On identity / Maybe it's more than the lights and pixels
On love / Love letter III
On mental illness / Addiction
On grief / Hospitals visits
On family / Sisters
On love / Unrequited love (the safest kind of love)
On mental illness / Depression
On teasing / Love
On living / Burning
On grief / Build up
On identity / Ancestral power
On mental illness / Choices
On tradition / Language
On love / Shells
On food / Dessert
On identity / Silence
On purpose / When not writing II
On death / Nîpîy
On mental illness / klo-NAY-zeh-pam
On identity / Boxed, or every form I fill our ever
On family / Grandfather
On food / KFC
On love / Star matter
On tradition / Wishes
On mental illness / Slice and dice
On identity / Blood
On grief / Packing
On family / Great grandparents
On identity / Father apart
On mental illness / General anxiety disorder
On teasing / To make everyone laugh
On love / Full circle
On questions / What if?
On TV / WWE
On grief / Fireflies
On identity / For the other mixed-blood, half-breed urban NDNs
On mental illness / My spirit isn't happy
On death / Through ribs and things
On love / Still, beauty
On food / Fry bread
On family / Father
On mental illness / Calm
On purpose / When not writing III
On identity / Possession of words/owners of history/belonging
On grief / Always
On teasing / Uncles
On love / Planting
On mental illness / PTSD
On secrets / Things I hate about myself
On secrets / Things I love about myself
On god / Signposts
On mental illness / Ashes
On identity / Together
On grief / Being okay sometimes
On love / Harvest
On mental illness / Living
On identity / rooted.

On/me /

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