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Montana Poets Series #2
What Lasts
From the Preface:
Jennifer Greene is a sxwqyim-one tasked to write. She'll tell you she is a cinnamon-colored dog in the moonlight / standing next to a barbed wire fence howling / at the noise of a freight train. She'll tell you she's the noise of a woodpecker tapping against / a wooden plank on a house while the people / inside read newspapers and put socks on.
What Lasts is a song for her ancestors to see her in her dreams. An epic poem, navigating the heroic everyday survivals of a woman who washes graveyard dirt off her daughter's feet in the tub, dips her son's feet into the same ocean off the / shores where Wampanoag men once made arrowheads. A slow meander through dusty pawn shops. Linear narratives of flashback and fast forward, not knowing which parts of her history surface in her laugh or / surface in her nightmares or surface in her fists. Salish hymns, cigarette smoke, stew with / deer meat, black coffee in Styrofoam cups.
Songs you'll learn from these stones and this sky.
Craig Czury, Editor, Montana Poets Series
Reading, Pa.
4/5/10
Jennifer Greene is a sxwqyim-one tasked to write. She'll tell you she is a cinnamon-colored dog in the moonlight / standing next to a barbed wire fence howling / at the noise of a freight train. She'll tell you she's the noise of a woodpecker tapping against / a wooden plank on a house while the people / inside read newspapers and put socks on.
What Lasts is a song for her ancestors to see her in her dreams. An epic poem, navigating the heroic everyday survivals of a woman who washes graveyard dirt off her daughter's feet in the tub, dips her son's feet into the same ocean off the / shores where Wampanoag men once made arrowheads. A slow meander through dusty pawn shops. Linear narratives of flashback and fast forward, not knowing which parts of her history surface in her laugh or / surface in her nightmares or surface in her fists. Salish hymns, cigarette smoke, stew with / deer meat, black coffee in Styrofoam cups.
Songs you'll learn from these stones and this sky.
Craig Czury, Editor, Montana Poets Series
Reading, Pa.
4/5/10
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First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Jennifer K. Greene
3 books1 followerJennifer Greene lives on the Flathead Reservation in Montana where she was born and raised. Her book of poetry entitled What I Keep was the winner of the 1998 North American Native Authors Poetry Award. She's won first-place awards from the Native American Journalists Association for feature writing. Her writing appeared on a CD entitled Heart of the Bitterroot: Voices of Salish and Pend d'Orielle Women which was nominated for a Native American Music Award in 2008. Jennifer is Salish and Chippewa-Cree and a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes. She's married and has three children.
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