Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word Weweni expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity.
Anyone interested in poetry or linguistics will enjoy this one-of-a-kind volume..
Noodin\'s poems will be proof to students and speakers of Anishinaabemowin that the language can be a vital space for modern expression and, for those new to the language, a lyric invitation to further exploration.
In addition to the individual dialogues played out beween Noodin\'s poems, the collection as a whole demonstrates a fruitful and respectful dialogue between languages and cultures.
As poems move from Anishinaabemowin to English, the challenge of translation offers multiple levels of meaning-English meanings found in Anishinaabe words long as rivers and knotted like nets, English approximations that bend the dominant language in new directions, and sets of signs and ideas unable to move from one language to another.
From planetary tracking to political contrasts, stories of ghosts, and messages of trees, the poems in Weweni use many images to speak to the interconnectedness of relationships, moments of difficulty and joy, and dreams and cautions for the future.
Noodin\'s warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear translated on facing pages in English.
In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection.
In addition, the word for relatives is nindenwemaaganag: those whose enewewe, or voices, sound familiar.
Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word Weweni expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity
