Dirt Road Home

by Cheryl Savageau

Northwestern University Press, 1995
Paper: 978-1-880684-30-6
Library of Congress Classification PS3569.A836D5 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Cheryl Savageau writes of poverty, mixed ancestry, nature, and family in poems that are simultaneously tough and tender, and salted with a rich folk humor from her Abenaki and French Canadian ancestry.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau has been awarded Fellowships in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and three residencies at the MacDowell Colony. Her second book of poetry, Dirt Road Home, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. She was awarded Mentor of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, as well as Writer of the Year (1997) for her children's book, Muskrat Will Be Swimming. Savageau also works as a textile artist, and her quilts have been exhibited at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Joseph Bruchac
Henri Toussaints
Grandmother
Trees
Looking For Indians
Ol' Crazy Baker
At the Fireworks
Gifts
Just His Eyes
What the Boy Said
At the A & W
Thorns
Harsh Words
Glissandos
French Girls Are Fast
Card Shark
Barbie
Like a Good Joke: Grandma At Ninety
Leah
First Grade—Standing In the Hall
Hanging Clothes In the Sun
At Fifteen, Louise Kills Chickens
Logic Problem
Department of Labor Haiku
Why They Do It
Bride
Infant of Prague
Crêche
The Sound of My Mother Singing
What I Save
Equinox: The Goldfinch
Trickery: A May Poem
Summer Solstice
Bones—A City Poem
Blessings
The Sweet and Vinegary Taste
Too'kay
After Hours
Comes Down Like Milk
Night
Menora
Mother Night: Full Moon Past Solstice
Genealogy
Roseanna
After Listening to a Reading of Romantic Poems About Columbus: One More Thought
Survival
Medicine Woman
To Human Skin
At the Pow Wow
Like the Trails of Ndakinna
All Night She Dreams

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