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Everything this poet touches is volatile—the poet himself, the people and world around him, ideas and mythologies, the ghosts of memory and the dream of possible futures, all seem to burst into fragments. Mark Turcotte uses poetry to gather up the pieces—the shards of joy and grief, peace and doubt, strength and temptation, questions and answers—as he tries to define and rediscover what is lost when everyday life becomes explosive.

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"Mark Turcotte's poetry feels like something brand new in Native American literature, like the first step of an original and aboriginal journey. There are no forced apologies or faux confessions here, and no desperate and nostalgic reaches into the past. Turcotte is very present in these powerful and playful poems." —Sherman Alexie

"I find Mark Turcotte's work to be very harsh, but true. In an age where false sincerity is favored over art, Turcotte's work is a corrective. It is very strong and has won me as a fan." —Jim Harrison

"Mark Turcotte's work is powered by anger, hilarity, and an earthy tenderness that grabs the heart and won't let go." —Louise Erdrich

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MARK TURCOTTE lived his early years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Reservation and grew up in and around Lansing, Michigan. He now lives and works in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Turcotte was the recipient of the First Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Open-Mic Award. He was a Pushcart Prize nominee in 1998 and in 2000, and he received a Lannan Foundation Literary Completion Grant in 2001. His work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, and Poetry, among other publications, and in 1998 he published a revised edition of his first book, The Feathered Heart (Michigan State University Press). A selection of his poems will soon appear in a bilingual French-English edition entitled La Chant de la Route (La Vague Verte, Paris).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ TriQuarterly; 1st edition (May 22, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 83 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810151235
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810151239
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches

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Eric H. Read

Exploding Chippewas

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I had the opportunity in 2012, to be entertained by the author of this book, Mark Turcotte, at the National Federation of State Poetry Societes National Convention in Indiana. To hear the author read his poems was a pure delight. He has given me an insight into his early life living on the Turtle Mountain Reservation that I could not get otherwise. His poems are insightful and present a point of view that is an eye opener. He paints pictures with his words in a unique way. I would highly recommend his books to anyone without hesitation. I purchased this book from Amazon after reading two of his other books.

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Heartfelt and true, these poems are the real deal; very moving.

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R. G. Ziemer

He tries to imagine “the story of your skin [that]echoes along the steel-ice rails that run like black-blood veins over the hear

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2014

Mark Turcotte read his poetry at College of DuPage last month as part of the Writers Read series and also participated in a panel discussion on the theme “Identity Matters.” A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Turcotte writes about his struggle to find his own identity caught between cultures. His “The Back When Poems” reflect life on the reservation and the meaning of Indian-ness, based on a comment by another who later referred to the time as “back when you used to be Indian.” Turcotte creates scenes with vivid imagery and figurative language, describing the sound of “thunder from out of the throat of the night” when “the sheets beneath me are soaked with memory.”
A second group of poems called “Road Noise” explore his feelings regarding the Indian father he missed as a child and whom he never really knew until he attended the man’s funeral. He tries to imagine “the story of your skin [that]echoes along the steel-ice rails that run like black-blood veins over the heart of America” and tries to understand “Men like you, who as boys, grieved for the thunder of the herds, dreamed of the thunder of the ponies and their hooves, that howling.”
The third group of poems also attempts to reconcile identity with his experience as an Indian, as a child, a man, a husband, and a father. “No Pie” poignantly recalls the prejudice the young mixed-blood Turcotte experienced. The collection ends with “Exploding Chippewas”, in which the ghosts of his ancestors appear in various forms before they explode, “burn to a flash.” They find him in different places in his life: his mother’s living room, a shabby motel room, a West Texas honky-tonk. He knows the voice of the first ghost “is the sound of sunlight dissolving, wings unfolding…” One ghost appears as “vapor spinning out of the ceiling fan”, others as steam, mist, light. Another ghost appears as heat, taking “the shape of the northern horizon.” One by one the ghosts reveal the helplessness of a man against time, blood, sadness.
Mark Turcotte’s voice is haunting and memorable, though, and in the end, his words give him power.

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Billy Lombardo

Read this to feel ancient America

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2008

You can feel the wind-the beat of drums-in these poems of Mark Turcotte, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. The first section of poems, The Back When Poems all begin with the same nine words:

Back when I used to be Indian
I am...

The tumbling of tenses in these nine words repeated in the thirty-three poems of this section hint at the tumbling of time-histories both ancient and recent, and the tumbling of cultures in this collection.

The poems in the second section speak to Turcotte's very personal story of traveling to Fargo, North Dakota to see to the burial of a father he hardly knew.

You can feel the ancient history of America in this collection, and hear its drum beat pass reluctantly from the poet's father to him, and from Turcotte to his own child. These poems, which explore childhood, father and motherhood, identity and race, make you think words like wind and dreams and bones and blood belonged to the Chippewa before they belonged to us, that we're borrowing them and we should take care to use them wisely. Turcotte has done well with his.

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