Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation.
Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream.
Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hope Matters blend their voices together into a shared song of hope and reconciliation.
Synopsis
Poetry. Native American Studies. Throughout their youth, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. The wide-ranging poems in HOPE MATTERS focus on the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. But they also document a very personal journey--that of a mother and her two daughters. Written collaboratively by all three women, HOPE MATTERS offers a blend of three distinct and exciting voices that come together in a shared song of hope and reconciliation.
"You need to read this book. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll swear out loud, but mostly you'll be proud of these ladies." --Senator Murray Sinclair
"Daughters and mother poetry dances around each other, weaves rhythm and breathes love. The ancestors sing, babies laugh and hope always wins." --Katherena Vermette
"I was captivated by each and every one of these extraordinary poems. Each of the poets is utterly unique and yet there is a striking commonality: commonality of blood, of perspective, and most of all, how the immense power of female desire is expressed through the power and dynamism of the natural world." --Judith Thompson