The Mother's Tongue

By Heid E. Erdrich

Book Overview

Poems that consider and figure women's experiences of work, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering within the particular contexts of the prairie landscape, American Indian cultures and Ojibwe... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844710602
• ISBN13: 9781844710607
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 21 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Honest and lyrical

Heid Erdrich's book is a beautiful meditation on motherhood, heritage, and the varied and unpredictable facets of love. A very necessary book.

Multi-layered poems of experience

This funny, wise, human voice encompasses the full range of childbirth and raising children. A beautiful book.

a dip into the honeypot of poetry

These lyric poems spin a web that will capture your heart as you experience to joy of a woman who has made the bitterweet journey to cross the river of motherhood. Don't stand on the shore--pick up this book and indulge yourself in the sweetness of these mother's songs.