ANISHINAABE SONGS FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM presentation at Twin Cities Book Festival with Marcie R. Rendon
October 19 @ 1:15 pm – 1:45 pm CST
Marcie R. Rendon will read from and sign copies of her new book Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium, at the 2024 Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, October 19 at 2:45 p.m. on the Showcase Stage.
This event is free and open to the public; free public transportation passes available through Twin Cities Book Festival. Learn more about the Festival here.
In Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium, Marcie R. Rendon summons her ancestors’ songs, and her poem-songs evoke the world still unfolding around us, reflecting our place in time for future generations. Bringing memory to life, the senses to attention, she breaks the boundaries that time would impose, carrying the Anishinaabe way of life forward in the world.
“White Earth Nation author Rendon records and refreshes the dream music of her people in this collection of ‘poem-songs.’. . . [Rendon] contributes powerfully timeless lyrics to the English-speaking world’s record of Amerindian verse.” —Booklist
“Rendon’s powerful poems speak layers of truth about the Ojibwe people’s remarkable resilience in surviving the violence of colonization, caring for the land, and kindling the wishes and prayers of generations yet to come, a testament to their collective strength and endurance.” —Colors of Influence
“Marcie R. Rendon gifts us with a meditative journey pulsing with the rhythms of life in Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium. Her moving words are lyrical and powerful, and they touch our ‘aloneness’ with vivid, beautiful images that carry dreams in song—connections with those who came before and are yet to come.” —Gwen Nell Westerman, Poet Laureate of Minnesota
