Summer in the Spring: Ojibwe Lyric Poems and Tribal Stories

by Gerald Vizenor (Editor)

This superb anthology, illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated, includes translations and a glossary of the Anishinaabe words in which the poems and stories originally were spoken.

Genres: Poetry

157 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 1981

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

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Came across this in the Grolier Poetry bookshop in Cambridge, Mass., figured I've never gone wrong with reading Gerald Vizenor before, so I picked it up. And indeed, I was not disappointed, even though it was not his own wild and wonderful imaginative fiction, which I have enjoyed so much. His translations and brief commentary on the source material were enjoyable and illuminating, glad I read them.

[Hemalatha Venkataraman · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't give it one star because it was bad but simply because it began to drag, due to which I quickly lost interest. But I usually finish all the books I start to read and so, I went through with it (other than the 'Interpretive Notes'). If the content is something you like, you might like this book with all its stories. It just wasn't for me.