{"product_id":"uiesh-somewhere-9781772015140","title":"Uiesh \/ Somewhere","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix litt?raire des enseignant.e.s de Fran?ais, and the Coup de Coeur Renaud-Bray, and finalist for the Prix Alain-Grandbois\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDual-language edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eUiesh \/ Somewhere\u003c\/em\u003e are rooted in Innu Elder Jos?phine Bacon's experiences of moving between the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan and the clamour of the city. Wherever she is, Bacon is attentive to the smallest details of her environment, from the moon and the stars, the Northern Lights, and the falling snow, to the sirens of fire engines and the noise of a busy bar night. From her quiet centre, she listens to the voices of the Old Ones, whose stories are alive within her, and reflects on the beauty and the pain of her long life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJos?phine Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e is an Innu poet born in 1947 in Passamit, Nitassinan \/ Qu?bec, and now living in Montr?al. An icon of Qu?bec literature, she writes in Innu-aimun and French, and has been invited to read her poems in many countries. She has also worked as a translator, community researcher, documentary filmmaker, curator, and songwriter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe spent her early years on the land with her family, living a nomadic life and hearing the stories passed down from her Ancestors. At the age of four, she entered residential school in Mani-Utenam (Maliotenam), where she remained until she was nineteen. She later moved to Montr?al and became a translator and transcriber for anthropologists interviewing Innu Elders and knowledge keepers in Labrador and Qu?bec.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer poetry has won many awards, including the Indigenous Voices Award, the international Ostana Prize (for writers whose mother tongue is a language of limited diffusion), and the Prix des libraires du Qu?bec, and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Grand Prix du livre de Montr?al. She received an honorary doctorate from Universit? Laval in 2016 and has been inducted into the Ordre de Montr?al and the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Qu?bec. She is the subject of the documentary film \u003ci\u003eJe m'appelle humain\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eCall Me Human\u003c\/i\u003e), by Kim O'Bomsawin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJos?phine Bacon has said, \"The poems I write are for those to come, so that they do not forget their origins in a land that will recognize their footsteps.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50930126487826,"sku":"9781772015140","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f95ad7d7-7614-48f5-8a4e-4324ae09e29c.jpg?v=1739063837","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/uiesh-somewhere-9781772015140","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}