Bent box

Summary: Bent Box is the first collection of poetry by Lee Maracle. The poems, written over the past two decades, speak volumes of emotion ranging from quiet desperation to bitter anger to the depths of love. With Bent Box, Maracle adds a rich blending of prose and poetry to her impressive list of fiction and autobiographical titles which include Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel, I am Women, Ravensong, and Sojourners and Sundogs.

Record details

Physical Description: print
128 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Penticton, BC : Theytus Books, c2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Poems.

Formatted Contents Note:

Deep Regret: Performing -- Sister -- Rage -- Words -- Paralysis -- Utitled -- Autum Rose -- Untitled -- Review -- Actress (Nilak Butler) -- Fish-Wife -- Alone -- String -- Karen -- Dandelion -- On Being Broke -- A Wilted Flower -- Carry Her Away -- Turbulent Storm: From a Tainted Rose -- Streets -- Song to a Palestinian Child -- Women -- Bring the Boys Home (Nicarauga-Another Vietnam) -- El Salvador-Vencera -- Outside the Circle of Chilean Fires -- Saga of American Truth -- Mister Mandela -- Leonard -- War -- Victory -- Where Were You -- Tumbleweed -- Death -- Ancestors -- The Language Leaked from my Lips -- Bent Box: Bent Box -- Bent Box (Thought) -- Bent Box (Choice) -- Bent Box (Legions) -- Bent Box (Dear Racist) -- Bent Box (Racist I) -- Bent Box (Racist II) -- Bent Box (Christian) -- Bent Box (Sexuality) -- Bent Box (Love) -- Bent Box (Sociology) -- Bent Box (My Song) -- Bent Box (Stone) -- Bent Box (Youth) -- Bent Box (Womanhood) -- Bent Box (Raven) -- Bent Box (Magic) -- Warm Wind: Beware -- Utitled -- My Box of Letters (December 23, 1959) -- Razzleberries -- Untitled -- Mama -- Light -- To My Children -- Columpa -- Northland -- Ka-Nata -- Zeller's -- In Solitude -- Ta'ha -- Letter to Jamilla (Who Sneaked off to Hong Kong ) -- Nautural Rhythm -- Sound Poem (For Willie Armstrong) -- Dedicated to the Anishnawbekwe.