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Inside My Mother

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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‘...an outstanding achievement that will, with its skill and elegance, deeply enrich Australian poetry and whoever reads it.’ Judges’ citation, 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha poet, is at the forefront of Australian Indigenous poetry. Inside My Mother is both a political and personal collection, angry and tender, propelled by the need to remember, yet brimming with energy and vitality – qualities that distinguished her previous, prize-winning verse novel, Ruby Moonlight. Tributes to country, to her elders, and to the animals and spirits that inhabit the landscape, coupled with the rhythms of mourning and celebration that pulse through the poems, make this a moving and personal collection. Grief is deeply felt and vividly portrayed in poems such as ‘Inside My Mother’ and ‘Lament’. There is defiance and protest in ‘Clapsticks’ and ‘I Tell You True’. In the final section there is a marked generational shift as the elders begin to pass away and the poet as grandmother comes to accept her rightful place as matriarch.

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1925818349

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Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

Stolen from her family as an infant, a prize-winning poet recounts her arduous journey to reconnect with the Aboriginal culture of her birth. In Too Afraid to Cry, Ali Cobby Eckermann—who was recently awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world—describes with searing detail the devastating effects of racist policies that tore apart Indigenous Australian communities and created the Stolen Generations of “adoptees,” Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their birth families. Told at first through the frank eyes of a child whose life was irretrievably changed after being “adopted” into a German Lutheran family, Too Afraid to Cry braids piercingly lyrical verse with spare prose to tell an intensely personal story of abuse and trauma. After years of suffering as a dark-skinned “outsider,” Eckermann reveals her courageous efforts to reconcile with her birth family and find acceptance within their Indigenous community. Too Afraid to Cry offers a mirror to America and Canada’s own dark history of coerced adoption of Native American children, and the violence inflicted on our continent’s Indigenous peoples.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631494252

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Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Too Afraid to Cry

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Too Afraid to Cry

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

Too Afraid to Cry is a memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia. It is a narrative of good and evil, terror and happiness, despair and courage. It is the story of a people profoundly wronged, told through the frank eyes of a child, and the troubled mind of that child as an adult, whose life was irretrievably changed by being tricked away from her family and adopted into a German Lutheran family. What makes this book sing is not only Ali Cobby Eckermann's strong and unique narrative voice and her ability to cut to the essence of things in her poetry, but also the astounding courage with which she leads the reader through the complex account of a life in free-fall and a journey to wholeness through reconnection with her birth family and its ageless culture and wisdom. This is a brave book, written by a woman who has faced her demons, transformed her suffering into a work of art, and found her true sitting place in the world.

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1921325240

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His Father's Eyes

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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His Father's Eyes

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

Suspended from school for arguing about Australian history with his teacher, Tyrone works on a building site with his dad and learns that there's more than one way to be a hero for his people. Themes: Absence of family Life changes Loss and fear of loss Discovery of strength through family

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0195571185

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Love Dreaming

& Other Poems

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Love Dreaming

& Other Poems

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

The author bears witness to a deep commitment to her traditional kin, culture and language as she tells the story of her search for her family on the traditional Yankunytjatjara and Kokatha lands in the north west of South Australia.

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Inside My Mother

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Inside My Mother

Inside My Mother

Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

Too Afraid to Cry

Too Afraid to Cry

His Father's Eyes

His Father's Eyes

Love Dreaming

Love Dreaming

Inside My Mother

Inside My Mother

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