Overview

Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich's artistic collaborations with choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, galleries, and museums. Erdrich pairs her poems with reflections on these collaborations and with prompts for readers to generate their own art-inspired poetry. Art from Jonathan Thunder, a frequent collaborator with Erdrich, appears on the cover and throughout the book.

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9781949487503

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""...affirming that all true collaboration leads more deeply toward the Self."" -Mark Turcotte, author of Exploding Chippewas ""Erdrich's words are medicine."" -Mona Susan Power, author of Council of Dolls

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Heid E. Erdrich has authored seven books of poetry, a non-fiction work on Indigenous foods, and she edited New Poets of Native Nations anthology for Graywolf Press. Heid's forthcoming book Verb Animate combines poetry and prose. Her honors include a National Poetry Series award, the Bobbit Prize from the Library of Congress, a Native Arts and Cultures National Fellowship and other awards. She is the inaugural Minneapolis Poet Laureate. Heid is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain.

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