{"product_id":"the-mother-s-tongue-9781844710607","title":"The Mother’s Tongue","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The Minnesota Book Awards 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e. Poems in \u003cem\u003eThe Mother’s Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e move in images of the living world that include plants and creatures both native and non-native to American landscapes. These poems move via persona and personal lyric through expressions of ambivalence about choosing the life of the body – of womanhood and motherhood – through the strange realm of pregnancy into the netherworld of the post-partum period and out into the world again, into the enlarged world, the world at war, the world of work and words. Finally these poems move to enter the world of women as transformed within the love of language – of recovered Ojibwe language and English renewed as first language in the mouths of infants. These are poems that urge women to discover the power of their own tongues as they teach speech – the sweet, salty, sour and bitter desires – the taste on the mother’s tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffering: Words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Honey Sweet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraving Honey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Way To\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShe Dances\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hive Improvisation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWeeds in Grief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntimate Detail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Way To Have No Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Way To Be Convinced\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Body, The River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNeon Lovers, Another Painting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Her Sake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Red Toad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOyster Mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmazon Huntress Gives Birth to Twins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith Honey from the Rock Would I Satisfy You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoman’s Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePica\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Deep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Salt Lick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraving, First Month\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffering: The Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen I Go Down to Pray\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKookum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst Rice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdol Construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Girl in Geography Class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bee Kept Wife\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCat Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParade of Old Loves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat Pregnant is Like\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYoung Poets with Roman Noses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWedding Blessing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNesting Dolls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraving, Seventh Month\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother Touch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Milk Sour \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffering: The Breasts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraving Release\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSisters Stay On the Other Side\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Image\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfter Birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostpartum I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostpartum II\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostpartum III\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostpartum IV\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostpartum V\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Born\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBreasts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve Items or Less, 1999\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePopular Parenting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Bitter Root\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffering: Ojibwe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCraving: Bitter Root\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwin Bugs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVermillion Hands Petroglyph\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Words Are Not Our Own\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem for Our Ojibwe Names\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThey All Dream the Lake, Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Belly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother of Sorrows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer of Infanticides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Snow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChangeling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElemental Conception\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaternal Desire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 a.m. Turtle Pool\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemedy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWiisah kote: The Burnt Wood People\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMindimoyeg: Dandelions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOld Man’s Tale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBasswood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHusbandry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Good Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Only Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMotherhood as First Language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771555873111,"sku":"9781844710607","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844710607.jpg?v=1758728256","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mother-s-tongue-9781844710607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}