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I Will Remember
Inga-minjimendam
Kimberley K. Nelson
Children's Literature
ISBN 0926147064
$10.95
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"My name is Vernon. I am Ojibwe."
With these words the author introduces the young narrator who takes us through the everyday experiences that he most enjoys--a walk along the lakeshore or through the woods, "looking at all the little animals that are there," netting fish with his father, swimming, ice fishing, going to pow-wows. "But most of all," he says, "I like to listen to my grandfather tell stories. He tells all sorts of legends to me, and about all those things he did when he was small."
The bi-lingual text, English and Ojibwe, is colorfully illustrated from artist Clem May's own experiences living near the shores of Red Lake in Northern Minnesota. An audio CD provides the reader with the Ojibwe text being read by Earl Nyholm.
Kimberly Nelson writes children's books, is a published artist and makes paper.
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Willow Water Stories
Jean Husby
Fiction
0926147161
$13.95
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"People used to think of Minnesota as 'pure Scandinavian' despite the settlements of other immigrant groups. These Willow Water Stories, almost like photo albums, give us insight into that strong Scandinavian immigration: farmers eager for the rich Minnesota prairie land, willing to leave Norway, uproot their young families and become Americans. As did Ole Rolvaag and Willa Cather, Jean Husby shows us the experience of being an immigrant, from the hold of a wretched, filthy steamship in her first story to the flourishing small town in northwestern Minnesota eighty years later. Her character, Marit, is sensitively portrayed from young child in the ship docking in New York to eighty-nine-year-old survivor, alone, in the family house her father built."
-Joanne Hart, author of Witch Tree, a collaboration with Hazel Belvo
Willow Water Stories is Jean Husby's first book.
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Dark Lake
Kathryn Kysar
Poetry
ISBN 0926147145
$11.95
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"Kathryn Kysar's first poetry collection tastes of the great dark lake of earth, of roots grown in black loam and pulled up to nourish the particular hunger women have for just a bit of grit. Kysar explores the human appetite for image, sensation and scent in an intimate voice that makes the collection entreat, whisper, gossip and confide. In the end, readers come to know Dark Lake as they would a friend." Heid Erdrich
Kathryn Kysar has received fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, and Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. She is the editor of a collection of essays, Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers
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Uncombed Hair
Anne Dunn
ISBN 092614720x
$11.95
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"Here again, Anne Dunn shows us she is a seer of profound and lyrical insight. Her poems, like her stories, bear eloquent witness to injustices local and global even as they awaken us to the sacred wtihin the ordinary, the immense beauty of the plain. Drawing richly on her Ojibwe tradition, Dunn's imagination shines far and wide to illuminate truths common to us all."
-Michael McNally
Anne Dunn's short stories have been published in three collections: 'When Beaver Was Very Great', 'Grandmother's Gift' and 'Winter Thunder'.
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Outside After Dark
Susan Carol Hauser
Poetry
ISBN 0926147153
$14.95
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"Susan Carol Hauser's poems are "words and images gleaned from the heart", the heart of Minnesota, the heart of Africa, the heart of the poet. You don't have to figure out what Hauser's "trying"to say. Only allow yourself to be carried along, by canoe, taxi or airplane, by laughter (Generation Gap) or music (Ada, a villanelle). Feel the way a seal travels, see how a poet works (Tower View), ponder our relationship to time (Amsterdam), to birth and death, (Woman Seeking Flowers) or to our bodies (Anatomy). Outside After Dark can best be described with Hauser's own words from Dreaming of Africa: "a dowsing rod of the heart seeking the water of home."
-Helen Bonner
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