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Poem-songs summon the voices of Anishinaabe ancestors and sing to future generations. The ancestors that walk with us, sing us our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them audible to people today. In Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium, Marcie R. Rendon, a member of the White Earth Nation, summons those ancestors' songs, and so begins the dream singing for generations yet to come. "The Anishinaabe heard stories in their dream songs," Ojibwe author Gerald Vizenor wrote, and like those stories once inscribed in pictographs on birch-bark scrolls, Rendon's poem-songs evoke the world still unfolding around us, reflecting our place in time for future generations. Through dream-songs and poem-songs responding to works of theater, choral music, and opera, Rendon brings memory to life, the senses to attention - to see the moonbeams blossoming on the windowsill, to feel the hold of the earth, to hear the echo of grandmother's breath, to lie on the bones of ancestors and feel the rhythms of silence running deep.
About the Author
Marcie Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation. Oprah Magazine's 2020 list of 31 Native American Author's to read. 2020 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award. 50over50 MN AAARP & Pollen Award. Rendon's novel Girl Gone Missing, Cinco Puntos Press, the second Cash Blackbear novel was nominatee for Putnam's Son's Sue Grafton Memorial Award at the Edgars, 2020. Murder on the Red River (2017 Cinco Puntos Press) was the Pinckley Women's Debut Crime Novel Award 2018 and Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 Contemporary Novel category. Rendon has non-fiction children's books and four plays published. Her script, Sweet Revenge was chosen to be a staged reading in the Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company's 2020 New Native American Play Festival. The creative mind of Raving Native Theater, she curated TwinCities Public Television's Art Is ... CreativeNativeResilience 2019. Diego Vazquez and Rendon received the Loft's 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship for work with incarcerated women.
