Bøger af Dianna MacKinnon Henning

When Ella sets out in search of a cure for her mother's cancer, she finds not only the bone-chilling cold of Nova Scotia's winter, but also feels the painful bite of a trapper's legtrap. Found unconscious by Stands Like a Tree, a Micmac, she is carried to her friend Minnie's house. When her friend Stands Like a Tree is eventually forced to leave the place of his birth, the Mohawks closing in on him, she sadly watches him paddle to his new lands. A year later, on the same shore she determines her future, but that future will not come without sacrifice.

Dianna Henning's evocative poems do not flinch a moment from their subject matter. These are poems that are mythical, reverential and mysterious, as well as hard won. Dianna wants to become the air the fox breathes, enter the spirit world of animals. She acknowledges that "memory is a dicey thing, /a stone that sinks/to settle where it can't be seen," yet, paradoxically, it is memory that propels these beautifully written poems into the heart of the reader.