Words Like Thunder

Lois Beardslee

“Award winning Ojibwe author Lois breadslee continues to break the mold and push the boundaries of modern Native American poetry and prose in her new collection words like thunders new and used anishinaabe prayers. Takleing contemporary topics like climate change and social economic equality with a grace and readability that empowers readers and celebrates the strengths of today’s indigenous peoples, Beardslee transforms the mundane into the sacred. She writes unapologetically with a strong ethnic identity as a woman of colour who has witnessed and experienced community loss of resources that defined her culture. More than anything, Beardslee empathizes the notion that indigenous peoples, whose modernity is a function of their survival, are competent and wonderful, worthy of praise.”

pp 129

6” x 9” x 0.4”