{"product_id":"apprenticed-to-justice-9781844712816","title":"Apprenticed to Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eApprenticed to Justice is a collection of vividly rendered lyrical and narrative poems that trace the complex inheritances of Indigenous America, this “strange map drawn of blood and history.” It opens with intriguing glimpses of individuals—a mother “born of dawn \/ in a reckless moon of miscegenation,” cousins “who rotated authority \/ on marbles sex and skunk etiquette,” women “planting dreams with dank names like rutabaga and kohlrabi”—and it turns on the notion of legacy. From what dark turmoil of earth do we emerge? How and what do we inherit? To what mesh of tangled origins do we live apprenticed? These are the literal and the metaphorical questions Anishinaabe author Kimberly Blaeser asks in this, her third collection of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in rich details of places from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the arctic region of Kirkenes, Norway, the poems link the people and the landscapes through storytelling. Narratives range from the comedy of a missing outhouse floor to the longing for the return of an MIA. The storied landscapes of the poems, the “Rocky bottom allotted land(s) \/ twenty-eight slow horse miles \/ from the village store,” also become intertwined with tribal history. And the remembered tribal accounts of scorched earth campaigns or the Trail of Tears in their turn become enmeshed with contemporary justice issues including Potlatch’s relentless clear cutting of forest lands and the strange cannibalism inherent in Sr. Inez Hilger’s study of “other” cultures like that at Blaeser’s home, White Earth Reservation. Ultimately, attention to these justice issues invoke the lives of tribal elders whose figurative “fragile houses \/ pegged at the corners with only hope” somehow represent and teach survival. Finally, each movement in the book connects back to the act of writing, to the poems themselves as both remembrance and a kind of revolution—“these fingers \/ drumming on keys.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI. THE TURN WE TAKE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily Tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShadow Sisters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Boxer Grandfather\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMashkawapide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJingles You Made\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Womanless Wedding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe More I Learn of Men’s Plumbing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMIA, Foreign and Domestic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII. THAT WHICH REFUSES PRETENTION\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCranes flushed from a field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSome Kind of Likeness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Spirit of Matter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egrace of crossings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomewhere on the Verge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Oak Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGelatin tadpoles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoundaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemories of Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eListing Ecstatic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrawing Breath\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeasonal: Blue Winter, Kirkenes Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRain-soaked snowman’s scarf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWild turkeys at field gate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHouse Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20 September\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOoh…Ahh!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHaiku Journey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNorthern follows jig \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIII. TO TRAVEL WITH YOU\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOf Wind and Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFingers paused on keyboard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTold at Beartooth in July\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSun through window slats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomething Deep Like Copper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf I Laid Them End to End\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndian in Search of an Entourage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBizaan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePage Proofs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoodbye to All That\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRailroad Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStories of Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Dance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIV.  . . . IN THE AFTERMATH OF EVERY WAR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Lake     70\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHousing Conditions of One Hundred Fifty Chippewa Families\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDictionary for a New Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Things I Know\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWho Talks Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFantasies of Women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eV. GONE. OR GONE ON. AGAIN\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat They Did by Lamplight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefractions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrunch of booted feet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResisting Shape or Language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeavings For Cousins Who Died Too Young\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJuly 29, 2002\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApprenticed to Justice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020709626199,"sku":"9781844712816","price":11.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844712816.jpg?v=1750784160","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/apprenticed-to-justice-9781844712816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}