Effigies III
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Craig Santos Perez, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Brandy N¿lani McDougall
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Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
199 kr
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Native Writers Circle Of The Americas First Book Award For Poetry These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire gather many nations of the world, some angry, some at peace. The nations’ emissaries accept invitations to stand together at the Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store and turn rhythmically to the four cardinal directions, so that the earth can regain its balance. Facing East, the ambassadors see Flags of Mercy hanging over New York City and Nagasaki, then encounter and embrace a manic-depressive Native Hawaiian-Cherokee medicine man in Oklahoma City. Traveling closer to the moon and stars they fly with a dreamer in the Garden of the Bumblebees, and they listen in Weleetka, Oklahoma, to the last two living speakers of Yuchi. Turning North, the councilors ice skate with post-Vietnam revolutionaries on glacier lakes in Idaho. They chase grouse in snow two feet deep, ponder dormancy in hyphenated winters and university libraries, and learn the best way to build a fall fire. Facing West, they lie on cool, creek bed vulvas of earth in sweltering Great Plains summer, navigate a wilderness river in canoes, and kiss a lover at dawn in the Chihuahan desert. Finally, turning in the divine direction South, the emissaries hear The Story of The Seeds, a journey back to 1540, to the conquest of Mabila by De Soto. In a stream of survival, they emigrate with Choctaws on trails of tears from Mississippi to Oklahoma, before sharing big ripe melons in the delta of the Vegetable River. They finish their revolution facing east again, just before dawn.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2006-11-15
- Mått140 x 216 x 8 mm
- Vikt194 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieEarthworks
- Antal sidor140
- Upplaga6002
- FörlagSalt Publishing
- ISBN9781844712670
- UtmärkelserWinner of Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry 2002