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Winner of the Prix des libraires, the Indigenous Voices award, the Prix litteraire des enseignant.e.s de Francais, and the Coup de Cur Renaud-Bray, finalist for the Prix Alain-Grandbois, and finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation Dual-language edition The poems in Uiesh / Somewhere are rooted in Innu Elder Josephine 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.

About the Author :
Josephine Bacon is an Innu poet born in 1947 in Passamit, Nitassinan / Quebec, and now living in Montreal. An icon of Quebec 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. She 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 Montreal and became a translator and transcriber for anthropologists interviewing Innu Elders and knowledge keepers in Labrador and Quebec. Her 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 Quebec, and has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal. She received an honorary doctorate from Universite Laval in 2016 and has been inducted into the Ordre de Montreal and the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Quebec. She is the subject of the documentary film Je m'appelle humain (Call Me Human), by Kim O'Bomsawin. Josephine 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."

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“A song bathed in light and wisdom, in one moment, true, embodied, powerful, with no secrets … the moment is the whole book. I opened the book at the end of the day, I began the song until the end of the night, I was guided to somewhere in the Nutshimit …” (trans.) –Mylène Bouchard on Uiesh / Somewhere, in Le Libraire, no. 109


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781772015140
  • Publisher: Talon Books,Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Talon Books,Canada
  • Edition: Bilingual edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 254 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1772015148
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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