Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass Basket. New York: Dutton, 2005
In this novel of what claims to be free verse, two young Mohawk sisters leave the reserve to attend a boarding school, and tell of their experiences there in alternating “poems.” As is typical of texts of this sort, the sections are in the first-person present tense, as [...]
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