Billboard In The Clouds - Softcover

Rancourt (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931896089 ISBN 13: 9781931896085

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2004

Synopsis

In this remarkable debut book of poems, winner of the Native Writers First Book Award, Suzanne S. Rancourt, presents her experience as a mixed-raced person seeking understanding through relationship with the natural world and dominant culture. Her family portraits are reminiscent of E. A. Robinson; her sensuous nature poems are imbued with love of earth as a "blessing."

Dance

my legs are explosions
expressions
of lustful wind
i converse through cracks in the walls
slipping in my true intention like a snow drift
on the inside
side of a door i pound
your chest
has become my wailing wall
i crave your tongue dusted
with words and implications
i have something you need

About this title

About the Author

Born and raised in West Central Maine, Suzanne Rancourt is Abenaki, Bear Clan. She is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. Suzanne's manuscript Billboard in the Clouds was the 2001 recipient of the Native Writers First Book Award. Ms. Rancourt holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vermont College and a Master of Science degree in Educational Psychology from SUNY, Albany, NY. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Albany Review, Callaloo, and Cimarron Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931896089
• ISBN 13: 9781931896085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200