Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts

by Heid E. Erdrich

Verb Poetry, Prose, and Prompts for Collaboration explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich’s artistic collaborations with Twin Cities choreographers, visual artists, digital artists, and others. Poems generated from these collaborations are paired with reflections on the experience of collaboration and prompts for readers to use to generate their own poetry in relation to art. Art from Jonathan Thunder, a frequent collaborator with Erdrich, appears on the cover and in the book. 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.

65 pages, Paperback

Published December 4, 2024

About the author

Heid E. Erdrich writes and publishes poetry and non-fiction. Her NEW book of poems, Cell Traffic, a new and selected from University of Arizona Press, IS NOW AVAILABLE. Please consider buying it from www.birchbarkbooks.com

Heid's most recent book of poems, National Monuments from Michigan State University Press, won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. Heid Erdrich teaches writing workshops, often as a guest at various colleges and universities. Each year she leads the Turtle Mountain Writers Workshop on her home reservation in North Dakota. Heid also works with American Indian visual artists as a curator and arts advocate. Author of the play "Curiosities," she collaborates broadly on multi-discilinary performances of other artists as well.

Founder of Wiigwaas Press, along with her sister Louise Erdrich and poet James Cihlar, Heid continues to publish Ojibwe language books in an effort to assist in indigenous language revitalization work.

Reviews

[Iara Moure · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall creo que es bastante rápido de leer, pero fácil de olvidar. No siento que haya hecho mucho ya que fueron pocas páginas, tampoco me voló la cabeza.
Mas allá de esto, fu eun buen libro.