Rosanna Deerchild

Calling Down the Sky (eBook, ePUB)

Tenth Anniversary Edition
Übersetzer: Ratt, Solomon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"This poetry collection is fierce, raw and candid. By recounting her mother's residential school experience in a powerfully poetic narrative, Deerchild expertly illustrates the heartbreaking trauma of that tragic saga and how it complicates relationships over generations." Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Crusted Snow

A tenth anniversary bilingual edition in English and Cree of Rosanna Deerchild's stunning collection about the intergenerational impacts of the Canadian residential school system.

you want me to
share my story

ok then
here it is
here in the unwritten
here in the broken lines
of my body that can never forget

In Calling Down the Sky, poet Rosanna Deerchild viscerally evokes her mother's experience within the residential school system, the Canadian government's system of violently removing Indigenous children from their homes, families, and languages in an explicit attempt to destroy Indigenous cultures and identities. With precise and intricate poetry, Deerchild weaves together the story of her mother's childhood and Deerchild's memories of her mother: her love of country music, her attempts to talk about what happened to her, how tightly she braided her daughter's hair on the first day of school. In doing so, Deerchild illustrates the disruptive and devastating impacts of the residential school system on generations of families while also celebrating the life and culture of her mother and other survivors.

Published for the first time in a bilingual edition of Cree and English, in time for the tenth anniversary of the original publication, Calling Down the Sky is an intimate and gorgeously evoked reckoning with a horrifying part of North American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coach House Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781770568815
• Artikelnr.: 73955634

Autorenporträt

Rosanna Deerchild has been storytelling for more than twenty years, currently as host of CBC Radio One's Unreserved, a show that shares Indigenous community, culture, and conversation. Rosanna has also developed and hosted This Place, a podcast series for CBC Books around the Indigenous anthology This Place: 150 Years Retold. Her debut poetry collection, this is a small northern town, won the 2009 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, calling down the sky, is her mother's Residential School survivor story. A Cree from O-Pipon-Na-Piwan Cree Nation at South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Rosanna now lives and works in her found home of Winnipeg.

Solomon Ratt was born to parents who were hunters and fishers. At the age of six Solomon was abducted from his home and taken to the residential school where he began his schooling. After the residential school he attended Riverside Collegiate High School. He attended the University of Regina earning two BAs and an MA. He is a recipient of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2021), the Queens's Platinum Medallion (2022), and was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada (2024).

He taught Cree at the First Nations University since 1984 (as a sessional) and full time since 1986, retiring in 2022. Solomon's publications include nihithaw acimowina Woods Cree Stories (2014), maci-nehiyawewin Beginning Cree (2016), and ahkami-nehiyawetan Let's Keep Speaking Cree (2022), published by the University of Regina Press. Another book published by the UR Press, ka-pe-isi-kiskisiyan / ᑳᐯᐃᓯᑭᐢᑭᓯᔮᐣ / The Way I Remember, won two Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2024.