A Difficult Beauty

Synopsis

David Groulx Was Raised In The Northern Ontario Mining Community Of Elliot Lake. He Is Proud Of His Native Roots - His Mother Is Ojibwe Indian And His Father French Canadian. David Groulx Was Raised In The Northern Ontario Mining Community Of Elliot Lake. He Is Proud Of His Aboriginal Roots - His Mother Is Ojibwe Indian And His Father French Canadian. After Receiving His Ba From Lakehead University Where He Won The Munro Poetry Prize. David Studied Creative Writing At The En'owkin Centre In Penticton, B.c. Where He Won The Simon J Lucas Jr. Memorial Award For Poetry. He Has Also Studied At The University Of Victoria Creative Writing Program. He Has Written Six Poetry Books - Night In The Exude (tyro Publications: Sault Ste Marie,1997); And The Long Dance (kegedonce Press,2000). Under God's Pale Bones (kegedonce Press,2010), A Difficult Beauty Is Due Out In Autumn 2011 (wolsak & Wynn:hamilton), Rising A Distant Dawn (bookland Press:toronto) Is Due Out In The Spring Of 2012 As Well As Our Life Is Ceremony (lummox Press: California).--kegedonce Website. Additional Keywords : Aboriginal Peoples, First Nations, Metis Poetry. Widening The Highway On The Rez -- Moving Down -- Mayflower Never Sailed -- Roofer's Boots (archaeology) -- Emptying The Graveyard -- White Noise -- Passing By Your Place -- Afternoon At The Adanac Hotel -- My Neighbour -- I Am Still -- Universe -- Sliding Away -- Whisper On The Highway -- This Is The Earth -- Miners -- Elliot Lake -- Uranium Mine Town Boom -- Unburied -- Defiant Burial -- Art Of This Toil -- One Swollen Afternoon -- Through Asphalt -- Dancing Into Red -- Will This Kiss Ever Matter? -- Dancing With My Father -- Indians Don't Call It Home Anymore -- Concussion -- Horsemen -- Drunk On This Wine -- This Noise Is Life -- Healing Words (for Im) -- I Am Here -- Sweat -- Winter -- Vanishing Indians -- Indian Myth -- Returning To The Rez -- Instruments From Oz Or Paranoid Indian -- Half -- Economic Dance/song -- They Wasted Nothing Either -- Night Together -- These Tits -- Urban Indian -- Dragging Up The Ancient Spirit -- This Deep Breath -- Brokenground -- Hate Is Long Distance -- Love Like Horses -- Summer Hummingbirds Visited Her -- Indians Drink -- One Set Of Tracks -- Scene From My Window -- Monsters -- Half-breed Trek -- Indoor Toilet -- Serpent -- While I Sat On The Hood Of A Chevrolet -- Running Back -- Nearest Body -- Our House Was On A Dirt Road -- Beads -- Rising Antagonisms -- Hunt -- Sitting With The Devil In A Bar -- Night In The Mission House -- Blueberry Season -- Our Responsibility To The Dead -- Cleaner -- Behind My House -- Security Guard -- Box -- Changing Names -- Temporary Transformations -- After The Shooting -- Now I Know You Rose -- Blood. David A. Groulx. Poems.