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
Description
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.
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