Almost Ashore

by Gerald Vizenor

Almost Ashoreis a selection of new and nurtured poems. The scenes are sentiments of survivance, and a tease of nature in original haiku poems. The imagistic scenes and associations are similar to the visual images in Anishinaabe, or Chippewa, traditional dream songs, mythic by nature and connected by images of natural reason.

120 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Gerald Robert Vizenor is an Anishinaabe writer and scholar, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Director of Native American Studies. With more than 30 books published, Vizenor is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Reviews

[Starsintheskies · Rating 4 out of 5]

The lack of punctuation was challenging to me. However, because of that, it did flow with Indigenous American storytelling quite well. His Haiku Scenes were wonderful!