Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative Acts

Verb Animate: Poetry and Prompts from Collaborative ActsVerb Animate explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich's artistic collaborations with Twin Cities choreographers, visual artists, digital artists, and others. Poems generated from these collaborations are paired with reflections on the experience of collaboration and prompts for readers to use to generate their own poetry in relation to art. Art from Jonathan Thunder, a frequent collaborator with Erdrich, appears on the cover and in the book.

She tells the story of a woman facing danger

The creek feeds the marsh

and literature

it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview

Much of the formal education he received about science

grew up in New Bedford

Mari Kurisato

as she faces a triumphant future

Twenty-something Philip Big Pipe disappears from an unsettled life he can hardly tolerate and ends up in an off-reservation town

playing Indian helped nervous city dwellers deal with modernist concerns about nature

a shift is occurring

With themes of resistance