Standing in a river of time : poems /

Standing in a river of time : poems /

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Author / Creator:Kirton, Jónína, 1955- author.
Imprint:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada : Talonbooks, [2022]
©2022
Description:xiv, 209 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Kirton, Jónína, -- 1955-
Women poets, Canadian -- Poetry -- Biography.
Métis -- Canada -- Poetry -- Biography.
Métis -- Colonization -- Canada -- Poetry.
Indigenous peoples -- Colonization -- Canada -- Poetry.
Spiritual healing -- Poetry.
Loss (Psychology) -- Poetry.
Redemption -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Canadian poetry.
Loss (Psychology)
Métis.
Redemption.
Spiritual healing.
Women poets, Canadian.
Canada.
Biographical poetry.
Poetry
Autobiography
poetry.
Biographical poetry.
Autobiographies.
Poetry.
Poetry.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographical poetry.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12752343
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Other authors / contributors:John-Kehewin, Wanda, 1971- writer of foreword.
ISBN:9781772013795
177201379X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 207).
Summary:"Standing in a River of Time merges poetry and lyrical memoir on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on a M̌tis family. Kirton does not shy away from hard realities, meeting them head on, but always treating them with respect and the love stemming from a lifetime of spiritual healing and decades of sobriety. This collection unravels painful memories and a mixed-blood woman's journey towards wholeness. The Ancestors whisper to Kirton throughout, asking her to heal, to bring them home, so that within these stories of redemption and loss the dead walk with us, their presence felt as the story unfurls in unexpected ways. Kirton does not offer false hope, nor does she push us towards answers we are not yet ready for. Instead, she gestures towards the many healing modalities she has explored as she discovers that the path to reconciliation is not only a long and winding road, but also that it begins with those closest to us."--
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Two Women Drowning: One Survives
  • Seekers
  • In the Forgetting Place
  • Ashes in My Mouth
  • The Power of Prayer: Self-Effort and Grace
  • Sliding Towards the End
  • In Search of Praise
  • Lost
  • Grace
  • Timeless
  • For the Ancestors
  • Displaced: It's Always about the Land
  • Born of Water
  • Untethered
  • Tell Me Again
  • Are We Cursed? Looking Back
  • I Am
  • Dirty
  • Quietly Drowning
  • Hope Lost
  • Fair Game
  • What Are You, Anyway?
  • Made Mad
  • A Fresh Start: One Door Closes, Another Opens
  • Nibbles
  • Memories
  • Sexism 101
  • Anxiety
  • Predisposed
  • Hungry
  • Rebirth: We All Come From Somewhere
  • Umbilical
  • Samsara
  • For Jessie
  • What Lies Beneath
  • Broken Windows
  • Hungry: Hurt People Hurt People
  • My Body a Doorway
  • What to Do in an Emergency
  • Care(Less)
  • The Last Drop
  • Making Room
  • Belonging: Breaking the Curse
  • Who Owns This Land?
  • Asking for a Friend
  • Fraser River Forgetting
  • Erasure
  • Hidden
  • Old and Wise
  • Where is Home?
  • Blended: A Family Constructed, Then Deconstructed
  • The Bereaved
  • Dear Nephew
  • Finding Love: Two Birds on a Wire
  • Love as a River
  • Flat-Footed
  • His and Hers
  • Love in the Time of COVID
  • Doppelgängers
  • Soft Gaze
  • Beside a Well: Walking with Women
  • The Many Faces of the Goddess
  • Together We Walk the Labyrinth
  • Falling
  • Crone Wisdom
  • In the Wandering
  • Women Find Ways
  • I'm in Iceland, Darling
  • In the Mirror
  • Movement: Bodies and Boundaries
  • Breaking News
  • White Flag
  • And What Else?
  • To be a Woman is to be Magic
  • All My Relations
  • Forgiveness: It's Never Too Late
  • Rooted
  • All Is Well
  • Tumbling
  • What Endures
  • Within the Echoes of Erasure
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
Robert Liddell Lowe Memorial Fund bookplate

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