Respected artist and Order of Canada recipient, Rita Joe shares her unique combination of native spirituality and Christianity that is her daily life. Writing with remarkable clarity and sympathy, she faces the pain and joy of our lives together.
With this latest book from Breton Books called Rita Joe, The Middle Years, all the published writings of this beloved Mi'kmaw Elder and poet Rita Joe are now in print. This new collection contains two complete books of her early poetry as originally published: Song of Eskasoni [1989] and L'nu and Indians We're Called [2011]. Her first book, Poems of Rita Joe, was published in 1978 and is available with new and selected poems in We Are the Dreamers?Recent and Early Poetry [1999]. The rest of Rita's poetry is in The Blind Man's Eyes [2015]. All of these books, along with her powerful autobiography called Song of Rita Joe, are available through Nimbus Publishing and from her publisher Breton Books.
