Dumont, Marilyn

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The Goose Volume 20 Number 1 Article 40 11-15-2023 memory Marilyn Dumont Follow this and additional works at / Suivez-nous ainsi que d’autres travaux et œuvres: https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée Dumont, Marilyn. "memory." The Goose, vol. 20 , no. 1 , article 40, 2023, https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol20/iss1/40. This article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Goose by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact scholarscommons@wlu.ca. Cet article vous est accessible gratuitement et en libre accès grâce à Scholars Commons @ Laurier. Le texte a été approuvé pour faire partie intégrante de la revue The Goose par un rédacteur autorisé de Scholars Commons @ Laurier. Pour de plus amples informations, contactez scholarscommons@wlu.ca. memory   memory this water that moves   sighing within us   this sight trailing back   like our wake   what is left behind   abiding   in this water where all is born contained memory this place we look back as a time dreamt   and pull forward now   retrieved memory this place we can mend  over and over                    Note on the Text   “memory” first appeared in Marilyn Dumont’s that tongued belonging (Kegedonce Press, 2007). Reprinted with permission from author and press.  A volume of Marilyn Dumont’s selected poetry, Reclamation and Resurgence, will appear in spring 2024 from Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 1Dumont: memoryPublished by / Publié par Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2023MARILYN DUMONT is a Metis writer who was born and raised on Metis Road Allowance land in small town Alberta. She is the author of A Really Good Brown Girl (Winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award), green girl dreams Mountains (Winner, Stephan G. Stephansson Award), that tongued belonging (Winner, McNally Robinson Poetry Book of the Year and McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year), and The Pemmican Eaters (Winner, Stephan G. Stephansson Award).  Marilyn’s work has been widely anthologized, represented in artwork and poetry installations, including the words from “memory” sewn into Heather Shillinglaw’s ᑮᓯᑌᐳᐃᐧᐣ    ᓵᑳᐦᐃᑲᐣ  kîsitêpowin sâkâhikan  cooking lake from the series of works ᒫᒥᑐᓀᔨᐦᒋᑲᐣ  ᑯᑖᐄᐧᐤ  mâmitonêyihcikan kotâwîw  my mind digs in the soil like a turtle, featured on this issue’s cover.   2The Goose, Vol. 20, No. 1 [2023], Art. 40https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol20/iss1/40

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