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Tom Holm - Darkening Land, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Darkening Land

Poems

Av Tom Holm

309 kr

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In Cherokee oral culture, seven warriors travel westward to the realm of the dead, a place called the Darkening Land, to retrieve the Sun's Daughter. For a Cherokee warrior like Marine Tom Holm, Vietnam was in the west like the Darkening Land. When the warriors of myth returned with the Sun's Daughter, she escaped and turned into the Redbird, beautiful and free. For a Vietnam veteran like Holm, return trailed trauma, and escape was haunted by death and damage. In The Darkening Land, Holm returns once more, reclaiming his experience and his place in the world through poetry, plainspoken verse that connects the pain of damage and loss to the healing powers of beauty and belonging.Holm's poetry conjures the past yet ever-present realities of combat, of the fear brought on by night, the sweetness of packages from home, the overwhelming reckoning embodied in the vast black wall in Washington, D.C., with its names of so many who truly journeyed to the Darkening Land. Along with the pain and loss, his poems speak of the possibility of finding hope in ceremony, community, and the natural world. This is a poetic world touched by humility and humor, horror and kindness, a return from the Darkening Land.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-06-08
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 102
  • Förlag: University of Oklahoma Press
  • ISBN: 9780806197661
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Tom Holm (citizen of Cherokee Nation/Muscogee descent) is the author of numerous books on Native American veterans, including Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II and Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War. He is also the author of three novels. Holm is professor emeritus of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. In the U.S. War in Vietnam, Holm served in Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines.

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"Darkening Land shares a Cherokee tale of an errant warrior sent to the place of the dead, and his return to healing and living. The poetry collection exudes humility and humor, horror and kindness. It is a manifestation of the worst and best of our humanity."—Sean Teuton, author of Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction"I am impressed with fellow Marine and writer Tom Holm's collection of poems about that time and place that we have both known. Holm deeply honors our fellow gyrenes better than any other writer. I highly recommend Darkening Land as a work of strength and dignity."—Geary Hobson, author of The Road Where the People Cried

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