The Crooked Good: Sky Dancer

by Louise Bernice Halfe

Through the voice of "Turn-around Woman", Louise Halfe guides the reader on a three-fold journey down a path where the personal, the historical and the mythic walk hand-in-hand. Louise Halfe revisits... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550503723
• ISBN13: 9781550503722
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Coteau Books
• Length: 135 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A trans-cultural experience of the search for identity, highly recommended.

Award-winning Native Canadian poet Louise Bernice Halfe presents The Crooked Good, a journey through elements of personhood, history, and myth. Drawing upon both aboriginal themes and the author's life experience as a mediator between cultures, the free-verse poetry of The Crooked Good evokes the feel of a mystic experience in which the words of one's ancestors reverberate through generations. A trans-cultural experience of the search for identity, highly recommended. "Pandora": Today I opened a box. / I wanted to know what I'm made of. // Stones. Feathers. Bones. Skins. / I don't understand this. / I greet each one as they caress / my face, my fingers, my eyes- / lay them tenderly in order, size, family.