Abstract
Artist and historian of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation, Jeffery Darensbourg’s 2020 film with Fernando López features poetry in Ishakkoy, an indigenous language from what is now southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, composed during an artist residency at A Studio in the Woods. The companion essay shares some of the process of composing creative works in this language, and especially of writing centos, also known as patchwork or collage poems, during COVID-19 sequestration.
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As I walked from the main house to the studio, I would sing a song for Nesh Kok that I had composed: Neš Kok, cici Neš Kok cici šiwat, yil tol, Neš Kok
I used over 600 note cards I took while going through David Kaufman’s Atakapa Ishakkoy Dictionary (Kaufman 2019) to compose poems and song lyrics
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. We Are Together : Notes on the Film Hoktiwe: Two Poems in Ishakkoy. I had plans and plans in March of 2020 when I arrived for an artist residency at Tulane University’s A Studio in the Woods, a sylvan retreat on the West Bank of Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
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