A calligrammatic poem using the concept of contour drawing (one continuous line where the pencil does not lift off the page until the drawing is complete), concrete poetry, and anaphora (“we build it, we build the longhouse, we build the longhouse as our ancestors have done”) as means of place-making. The central fire of the
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I’ve been at work on a treated book-length copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Hiawatha. Hiawatha was a story I read as a child (an updated illustrated version in my mother’s home). The story of Hiawatha is Iroquoian, but many of the images and ideas drawn upon by Longfellow were of Anishinaabe cultures. So I’m revisiting the book
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