“Bent Box, Maracle’s latest book, is a collection of 68 poems that reveals a woman awake
in observation, one who has a penetrating love of the culture she was born into. Maracle
writes with a bare essence, using strong emotion and few words to leave a vibration of
feeling rather than obvious images.”

WENDY WALLACE, Prairie Books Now

Bent Box is the first collection of poetry by Lee Maracle. The poems, written over the
past two decades, speak volumes of emotion ranging from quiet desperation to bitter
anger to the depths of love. With Bent Box, Maracle adds a rich blending of prose and
.poetry to her impressive hSF of fiction and autobiographical titles which include Bobbi

Lee: Indian Rebel, I am Woman, Ravensong, and Sojourners and Sundogs.

LEE MARACLE was one of the first Aboriginal people to

be published in the early rg70s. She has since become the most

prolific Aboriginal author in Canada and a recognized authority

on issues pertaining to Aboriginal people and Aboriginal litera-

ture. She presenty resides in Barrie, Ontario, where she works

at the Barric Native Friendship Centre and teaches sessional

courses at the University of Toronto.

ISBN O-919441-89-0

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