Anita Endrezze
Maiah Merino (reading her work and work by) & Anita Endrezze, BRIDGES NOT WALLS, 2/28/2017.Anita Endrezze is a poet, writer, and artist. She is half-Yaqui Indian and half European (Slovenian, German-Romanian, and northern Italian). Endrezze was born in Long Beach, California in 1952. She graduated with an MA from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Everett, Washington, is married with two children and works as a storyteller, artist and teacher. Endrezze teaches university courses and her work has been translated into seven languages, published in ten countries. She has taken part in the Washington State Council for the Humanities Speakers' Series. Contents
 Yaqui poet and artist In March 2000, her book Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon was published. The book is illustrated by her paintings.  A book of Anita's poems, at the helm of twilight, won the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award and the Governor's Writing Award for Washington State. She also received a grant from Artist Trust to aid her in researching Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon. Lune D'Ambre, a book of her poems translated into French, and published in France by the distinguished house, Rogerie, and a book, The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, published in England by Making Waves Press joins her international publications, along with a children's novel, The Mountain and the Guardian Spirit, (CDForlag) in Danish.  Her paintings have been exhibited in Wales, England, Sweden, Denmark, and the United States. Several of her paintings appear on anthology book covers as well as on her own books. Awards Anita's book At the Helm of Twilight was the winner of the Washington Governor's Writers Award and the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award. Books by Anita EndrezzeThrowing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, (Sun Tracks, V. 40), University of Arizona Press. The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, Making Waves Press. at the helm of twilight, Broken Moon Press. Burning the Fields, a Confluence Chapbook, Confluence Press, Lewis and Clark State College. The North People, The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press. TextbooksApproaching Literature in the 21st Century, Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl (Editors), Bedford/St. Martins Press. Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, Stephen Minot, Prentice Hall. Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses, Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, St. Martin's Press. Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, by John Frederick Nims, McGraw Hill Text. Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers, Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford, Harpercollins College Div. Elements of Literature, by Robert Anderson, Holt Rinehart & Winston. Yo Words, One Reel, Seattle 1994 " The Girl Who Loved the Sky " InterviewsHere First, Arnold Krupat, Brian Swann (Editors), Random House Work Published in TranslationLune d'Ambre, (Rougerie, 1993) poems in French. Bjerget og Skystsaanden (The Mountain and the Guardian Spirit) (CDR Forlag, 1986) ReferencesAnita Endrezze WikipediaSimilar Topics Travellers and Magicians Slaughter Hotel Terry McAulay | |||||||||
