This is Where
Louise Waakaa'igan
(Author)
Randall Horton
(Editor)
Description
Poetry collection by Louise Waakaa'igan, recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first-place poem, "There is Where."
In this eagerly anticipated volume Anishinaabekwe poet Louise K. Waakaa'igan lets us hear the "winds of flutes" even as she writes from "concrete plains" of prison. In the tradition of political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Marilyn Buck, this poet lets word fly through and beyond prison walls. A multilayered origin story, This is Where refuses to duck the contradictions of time, place and belonging.
Product Details
Price
$14.99
$13.94
Publisher
Willow Publishing
Publish Date
March 10, 2020
Pages
48
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.12 inches | 0.16 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781733089814
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About the Author
Louise K. Waakaa'igan is enrolled at Odaawaa Zaaga 'iganiing (Lac Courte Orielles Reservation) in northern Wisconsin. Louise is the recipient of the 2017 PEN Poetry Prize for her first-place poem, There is Where. She is also the first-place winner of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop's Broadside Competition (2016). Louise's work has been previously published in PEN America, 21 Mythologies, The Moon Magazine, 27th Letter, Words in Gray Scale, and Doors Adjacent. She was released this year from the Shakopee Correctional Institution in Minnesota.
Randall Horton's past honors include the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and most recently a GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction for Hook: A Memoir. The author of numerous books, he is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders, which received the 2018 American Book Award in Oral Literature. He is associate professor of English at the University of New Haven.
