PaperbackPublisher: Many Voices Press (1996)ISBN-10: 0963727710ISBN-13: 978-0963727718

Poems to Our Therapists

Many Voices Readers Staff

Many Voices Press

Poems Across the Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets

Lowell Jaeger

Poetry. "Like a superb ballad made up of unraveling verses, each chronicling a girl's coming of age, CB Follet's utterly charming and often heart-breaking new book, AND FREDDIE WAS MY DARLING, reminds us that of all passages one's life, the passage into sexuality and young adulthood is the most exciting and the most disorienting as well. Part historical family album, part mischievous memoir, this collection boasts a refrain in the form of a person -- the Freddie of the the title, who is one of the few constant male figures in the speaker's life. This compelling catalogue of memories and reflections reminds us of the losses we endure and the loves we carry with us into our separate futures. Though she may not wish to share him, CB Follett has made Freddie our darling too"--David St. John.

And Freddie Was My Darling

Literature & Fiction

Follett, CB

Poetry

Collected here are poems about horse racing, mining, trash collecting, nuclear testing, firefighting, border crossings, buffalo hunting, surfing, logging, and sifting flour. In these pages you will visit flea markets, military bases, internment camps, reservations, funerals, weddings, rodeos, nursing homes, national parks, backyard barbecues, prisons, forests, meadows, rivers, and mountain tops. In your 'mind's eye,' you will meet a simple-minded girl who gets run over by a bull, two mothers watching a bear menacingly nosing toward unsuspecting children, and children who 'have yet to be toilet trained out of their souls.' You will learn to 'reach into the sacred womb, / grasp a placid hoof / and coax life toward this certain moment.' You'll teach poetry to third graders, converse with hitchhikers, lament for an incarcerated brother 'trying to fill the holes in his soul / with Camel cigarettes / and crude tattoos.' You will sit at the kitchen table where perhaps the world will end 'while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.' In the short time each of us has in this world, here s your chance to experience life widely and to reflect on your experiences deeply. -- Lowell Jaeger, Editor

New Poets of the American West

Harold Johnson's Citizenship is a down-to-earth good read. These accomplished poems are built on hard-earned wisdom, rich with human situations every reader can recognize as his or her own. Johnson teaches us how to comprehend our lives through the close-up lens of everyday particulars and the long-view lens of global and historical concerns. He reminds us that we've been given the gift of citizenship in a diverse and miraculous world where, amidst tragedy and conflict, compassion triumphs. 'Out of the heart of the neighborhood,' Johnson writes, 'music from / the Good Humor van rises, rolling this way.' -- Lowell Jaeger,author of How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past, editor of New Poets of the American West.

Citizenship

Harold L. Johnson

Poetry. "These often wrenching family poems constellate and adhere in a remarkable way, informing one another, talking back to one another—multiplying the poignancy and sadness and luminous victories as well. These are incredible poems of parents and children, the whole web of family and loss—it's just so moving. And the cosmic beauty of the title section is stunning, but I feel it's the final section, 'Into the Light,' that is the absolute killer. I know the book has built to this section, but nevertheless it feels to me that each poem in this section is just exquisite, so perfectly balanced as we move to the elegant final two poems...."—David St. John

Of Gravity and Tides

The poems in Why I Return to Makoce tell of the immense loss of land and life and language that American Indians have endured, but they ultimately assert a powerful call to action for tribal people to make some serious decisions and changes for the future of [our] children. These poems, which are steeped in Lakota cultural traditions, urge us to take a deep breath, to take initiative, and to not allow ourselves to drift back to the safety of chains. They encourage readers to believe that change is possible and that it is through our reconnection with the spirit realm, the real world that we can heal ourselves and our communities.-- Heather Cahoon author of Elk Medicine

Why I Return to Makoce

Lois Red Elk

Minerva Allen is one of Montana s finest treasures, and her poetry reverberates across the great plains. She has paid great attention to the stories of her ancestors, observed and recorded both the everyday and extraordinary facets of what it means to be a Nakoda woman and a human being. We should all be grateful for this, and for her enduring voice that emerged from a time when tribal languages, ways of life, and belief systems were deliberately and actively being extinguished. Allen s poems are an act of resistance, a symbol of survival and an exquisite revelation. --Mandy Smoker Broaddus

Nakoda Sky People

Minerva Allen

The poems in Our Blood Remembers by Lois Red Elk make a circle from the old days and old ways to the present where ghosts of the past walk with the living. These are honest poems from a grassroots Dakota woman. They offer brilliant and insightful portrayals of Native pain, hope, and joy. In the flickering campfires of these poems, the blood does remember. -- Adrian C. Louis  I have been waiting a long time -- perhaps even my whole lifetime -- for this collection of poems. It is as if we have all been given the gift of time and perspective, allowed to view our world, our lives, our strengths and shortcomings through a primeval and potent lens. If we are to endure, persist and thrive again, we need these words. As lucid as a spring thunderstorm on the high plains, Red Elk's candor, clarity and wisdom are imparted amongst and across generations. This collection is what we have all been waiting for. -- Mandy Smoker Broaddus  It is important that you write in our own Indigenous language when you compose your poetry: that is the genuine voice of our people. It is so important that our own people appreciate and use their own language; that, to me, is where the real poetry of Indigenous spirit, mind, hear, soul is. Our Indigenous language is the true voice of our land, culture, and community, and it is the voice of poetry truly. -- Simon J. Ortiz

Our Blood Remembers

Poetry. Art. NOAH'S BOAT, by CB Follett, is a compendium of poems about creatures large, small, and smaller. There are some poems of humor and poems dealing with the seriousness of the plight of our fellow travelers on the planet. The book includes seven pen and ink drawings by the cover artist, Joyce Koskenmaki. "This is such a special book…It's the arc and the ark both I love in NOAH'S BOAT, as well as the generosity of the attention in the poems, and the partnership with the animal in reckoning the speaker's experience/consciousness in the natural world. It's really moving, really amazing." —David St. John, The Window "...I delight in how Follett's poetic skills enhance the love the reader feels for the subject critters...There are many gems in this book..."—Eileen Tabios, Galatea Resurrects. "The term 'word artist' comes to mind because, in effect, these free verse productions are paintings of landscapes, animals, and human interactions...Delicate, multifaceted, and filled with powerful contrasts between human and animal perceptions, NOAH'S BOAT offers up an ark of poetic observation for any nature enthusiast who loves powerful nature- oriented poetry."—Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review

Noah's Boat

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