Thoughts and other human tendencies /

"A poetry collection where stories of Aboriginal experiences are distilled into feelings and thoughts that are universal. Reneltta Arluk weaves the traditional and the contemporary together through the eyes of a young Aboriginal woman. She draws from the Aboriginal tradition of praising the lan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arluk, Reneltta
Corporate Author: Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University) Poetry, 2001-2025
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Markham, Ont. : BookLand Press, c2012
Toronto, ON : c2012
Series:Canadian Aboriginal voices series
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Table of Contents:
  • Once were
  • Connection
  • Regurgitation
  • Chiasmus
  • Indian time
  • Still-life
  • Afterthought
  • Contradiction
  • To a man sitting in Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Fly-fisherman
  • An Inuvialuit children's song
  • Four colours of thought
  • The writer
  • Fringes
  • Outer shell
  • Death unanswered
  • Open wound
  • Yellow eyes
  • Rain vs. thunder
  • Torrent
  • Poetic magnets at the San Francisco Airport
  • Inhalation/Exhalation
  • The rain took off
  • Shut in
  • Good shot
  • Purified
  • Broken man
  • Irony
  • Thought number 249
  • What I saw in Mexico
  • Suicide prevention
  • Hester Fester
  • Mistress Death
  • Blackness
  • Standing in water
  • Self-portrait
  • Fork in the road
  • I cope
  • Lady may the glass be broken
  • Exposé
  • Conspiracy
  • Advertising
  • The player
  • The musician
  • Dreaming of Jeannie
  • The one-night-stand among friends
  • Travelling, fucking, drinking
  • Looking glass
  • Saints and liars
  • Savour
  • Velocity
  • Tromented tormentor
  • Social media
  • One liners
  • Isis Sisi Yes Yes
  • Lunch break
  • Golden harps and silken threads
  • Sittin' blue
  • After bar conversations
  • To my bro
  • A scene for a movie
  • Balancing act
  • The moment in between
  • How trees were created in New Mexico
  • Aboriginal Day
  • Global warming
  • Familial retribution
  • Haiku
  • Thoughts and other human tendencies