Where the Land Gets Broken

By Walter Hildebrandt format: trade paperback publication: April 2004 ISBN: 9781894800501

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Winner of the 2005 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry.

The poetry in Where the Land Gets Broken looks to the margins of society to discover the forgotten stories, those tales that lie outside traditional histories. To the Assiniboine, the Cypress Hills were known as the place "where the land gets broken." It was where they collected special grasses that were smoked in their stone pipes during sacred ceremonies. The hills were where they buried their ancestors on top of the highest points. To the Blackfoot the hills were known as "the place where the weather comes from." Walter Hildebrant has for many years written about these hills so rich in history, The long poems in this book address an unsettled past - the Cypress Hills Massacre, the forced removal of the Assiniboine, the starving Cree of Big Bear's band and the signing of the Treaties. His poems are layered and acknowledge the complex tapestries and multi-dimensional perspectives that leave us with histories, not a single History.

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