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SPOTLIGHT: Former Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low (Lenape/Cherokee)
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate from 2007-2009, offered a presentation in Special Collections today on “Indigenous Re-Identification: Cross-Genre Autobiographies,” discussing self identity in the storytelling found in ledger art, the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomas Weso’s Good Seeds: A Menominee Food Memoir, and her own Turtle’s Beating Heart: A Lenape Story of Survival.
Low is an award-winning author of 30 books of prose and poetry. To spotlight her presence here, we present an artist’s book of her poems, Quilting, illustrated and printed in hand-set in Caslon Bold in 1984 by Linda Samson-Talleur in an edition of 183 signed copies at the Holiseventh Press in Lawrence, Kansas. The paper was handmade by Jennie Frederick of Kansas City Paperworks.
Of her work in this set of folded, handmade-paper broadsides, Denise Low writes:
These quilting poems, though mostly written during the summer of 1982, have taken all my life to write… . Quiltmaking is an apt metaphor for making art. The poetry I like best, in fact, is a synthesis of everyday objects and events, chosen from a rag-bag stockpile and transformed by the human touch… . I myself do not quilt, or even sew. Nonetheless, I feel included in the vast circle of women who have had families and have tried to make objects of utility and beauty from fabric and yarn… . Such tacit nurturance is an inheritance threaded through the generations.
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uwmspeccoll:
SPOTLIGHT: Former Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low (Lenape/Cherokee)
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate from 2007-2009, offered a presentation in Special Collections today on “Indigenous Re-Identification: Cross-Genre Autobiographies,” discussing self identity in the storytelling found in ledger art, the work of Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomas Weso’s Good Seeds: A Menominee Food Memoir, and her own Turtle’s Beating Heart: A Lenape Story of Survival.
Low is an award-winning author of 30 books of prose and poetry. To spotlight her presence here, we present an artist’s book of her poems, Quilting, illustrated and printed in hand-set in Caslon Bold in 1984 by Linda Samson-Talleur in an edition of 183 signed copies at the Holiseventh Press in Lawrence, Kansas. The paper was handmade by Jennie Frederick of Kansas City Paperworks.
Of her work in this set of folded, handmade-paper broadsides, Denise Low writes:
These quilting poems, though mostly written during the summer of 1982, have taken all my life to write… . Quiltmaking is an apt metaphor for making art. The poetry I like best, in fact, is a synthesis of everyday objects and events, chosen from a rag-bag stockpile and transformed by the human touch… . I myself do not quilt, or even sew. Nonetheless, I feel included in the vast circle of women who have had families and have tried to make objects of utility and beauty from fabric and yarn… . Such tacit nurturance is an inheritance threaded through the generations.
View other Native American Women Writers we have highlighted.
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