With poems that both calm and awaken, Mary Barnes brings her Ojibwe roots to the fore and elegantly coaxes out the seemingly quiet world we often take for granted in What Fox Knew. In this masterful first collection, Barnes reveals this world anew, with tempered grace.

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Come to the River
• Long Time Ago
• Some Things Are Remembered
• In That Place
• In the Yellow Afternoon
• If You Stood on the Hill
• Expectations
• Girl in the Attic
• The Road
• Too Far Ahead
• Inheritance
• The Dream
• Brown
• not on the agenda
• Kevin 1
• Kevin 2
• Territory
• Nottawasaga Bay Morning
• The Ancestors are Speaking
• Regeneration
• Nightfall
• Woman Missing
• Blue Sky Woman
• What Fox Knew 1
• What Wind Knew
• What Fox Knew 2
• What River Knew
• The Hunt
• Magic
• In Bleak Mid-Winter
• April
• Fair Wind
• The Comforter
• It’s the Little Things
• See
• Gathering
• The Hat
• Lighthouse
• We Talk
• Honey, I Cried
• Red Balloon
• The Game
• Along the Wooded Path
• Friday Evening (for Audrey)
• Chords
• Upset
• Testament
• Country Food
• On An April Morning
• Stain
• Windstorm
• Reflection
• Tracking the Mystery
• The Cherry Tree
• Afternoon Tea
• Dance
• The Pulse of the Garden
• In the Old Graveyard
• The Cut
• Remembering Ottawa, October 22, 2014
• Widow
• Nottawasaga Notes
• Let Us Sleep
• The Awakening
• What a Collection
• Train’s Coming Through
• Barry’s Song (for Barry Dempster)
• That Which Is and That Which Strives to Be
• Glow
• For Robert Frost
• For Boris Pasternak
• The Visit
• Hope
• Bert Says, or, The First Time
• Squall Variation
• February Afternoon
• The Word
• Rain
• Quest
• Riddle
• Lumber
• Lochranza Stones
• In One Moment
• A Fumble at the Stars
• In a Room
• Assistant
• The Leaves of May
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Ojibwa Glossary