Between the Dog and the Wolf
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1944355049 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 46 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. She holds a Ph.D. She lives and writes in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. . Elizabeth Tornes has published two chapbooks, New Moon (2013, Finishing Line Press) and Snowbound (Giiwedin Press, 2011), which won First Prize in the 2012 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest. She has also
Wonderful poetry! N. McDowell Fantastic poetry. Tornes has touched the heart of the north woods experience and connected it with what can only be called the human experience. I loved these poems.. Lisa Brunette said A lovely little collection. This book resonated with me so much that I blogged about it on my author web site. Tornes records such things as "the loon's tremulous call--/ the voice of the Creator/ if we would only listen." This poet clearly has a gift for capturing the beauty in both nature and language.
She takes us to pow wows, shows us boarding school beatings, honors the Ancestors. Winner of the 2015 "Say Elves" Poetry Contest! Elizabeth Tornes’ Between the Dog and the Wolf celebrates the richness of life’s twilight spaces: the transition space of August between summer and fall; roadsides, where the travel paths of humans intersect with those of animals; varied terrain—from yurt to creek— and the diversity of earth’s bounty. Her poems reflect on the process of language itself, as the Ojibwe language blends with a secret language of the natural world. As refreshing as an unexpected summer rain, Between the Dog and the Wolf lets us into a world where people are predominantly good to one another, recognizing the divine in each living thing. And it’s this sanctity of life that allows her poems not only only to speak, but also to listen. In this reverential way, Tornes turns the skill of her poetic eye on the contemporary life of Native Americans in northern Wisconsin. Just like Dickinson’s famous line about the slant of light in late afternoon when “the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath,” these pages are the meeting place between this world and the next.
She has also published a collection of Ojibwe oral histories, Memories of Lac du Flambeau Elders (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004). She lives and writes in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. Her poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including Antioch Review, Blue Heron Review, bornmagazine, Boulevard, Field, Gulf Coast, Illuminations, Main Street Rag, Missouri Review, The North American Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Southern Review, and Western Humanities Review. in Creative Writing from the