matwân cî ...wondering about now and then and everything everywhere: poems Kindle Edition

The overall theme for this collection is a deeply felt sense of wonder about everything everywhere. This is the Cree sense of matwân cî. Nia's poetry is at times mystical, playful and humorous, poignant and painful, and inspiring. Her poetic observations are a philosophical critique of an increasingly mechanized world with its digitized heartbeat. Above all, her poems are an invitation to be aware of the expanse and beauty of knowing we are in-separate and permeable, birthed, and rooted in an ancient past and integral to a life that arcs toward connection and wholeness."This poet holds the stories, the language, the dances, and visions of the sacred animals. She stands between worlds. The healing involves all of us and needs our awareness, our differences, our likeness to weave together what has been separated in and among all of us." - Christin Lore Weber, author of No This But This"As a wild tangling and untangling of contemporary cultural worldviews (and their horrors) with traditional lifeways and experiences, Nia To Go There's poems illuminate, challenge, inspire and educate." - Chris La Tray, Montana Poet Laureate 2023-2025, Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians"In the insanities of our world today, matwân cî reminds us to take a moment to be still... to experience deeply, profoundly a journey into the language of the unknown, yet known. A reminder of who we are. An invitation to become fully self, loving other." - Wanda Daniel, Earth Ministermatwân cî offers a window into a wide range of topics. Some of the poems are specific to Nia To Go There's experiences of being an indigenous woman. Others are universal: for example, her keen and appreciative observations of the natural world. Readers will explore many new horizons in the care of a kind and wise guide. They are in good hands. - Patricia Park (One of Nia To Go There's former-and forever-students.)"We are both visible and invisible. We are sacred and must open ourselves to our own story...waiting to be told." With these words Nia To Go There invites us to accompany her on a journey into an ancient space that transcends time, to a place in which first peoples live within the sacred sphere of the earth. She is re-minding us in matwân cî of the language and practices of her ancestors. To go there offers a way to bring these languages and practices into our own stories, which wait to weave us into the fabric of the living cosmos. Spoken in many different voices of native people, these poems and reflections, simply, offer profound love to the world. - Kathleen Jesme, author of The Loneliness of a Planet Without a MoonFrom Modern History Press Read more