How the Songs Come Down

New and Selected Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Revard’s poems are more like those of Seamus Heaney than those of Paul Muldoon – more like Robert Frost than Wallace Stevens, more like Mark Twain than Henry James. They are true stories, some from time on the Osage Reservation during Dust Bowl days, some from the Isle of Skye in Hippie Time, others from Creation Time in Las Vegas with Trickster, at the Hotel Empire in Manhattan with Dante, under dragons flying over St. Louis, dodging bullets while stealing watermelons, listening to humpbacked whales and wine-throated hummingbirds in Bellagio, parading with the Veterans of Foreign Wars to publicize some powwow in the old Indian-fighter headquarters at Jefferson Barracks on the Mississippi, sitting with Ponca cousins in a bar and hoping not to get shot after the occupation of Wounded Knee. The reason for every poem in this marvellous selection is to invite readers into its personal, familial, communal space to feast with the Ponca people and Revard on whatever they have on the table. These poems are all for having some kind of good time together, and the more the merrier.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-04-01
Mått140 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt244 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEarthworks
Antal sidor176
FörlagSalt Publishing
ISBN9781844710645

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Carter Revard, Osage on his father’s side, grew up on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma. After work as farm hand and greyhound trainer, he took B.A.s from the University of Tulsa and Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship, Oklahoma and Merton 1952), was given his Osage name and a Yale Ph.D., then taught medieval and American Indian literatures before retiring in 1997. He has published Ponca War Dancers; Cowboys and Indians, Christmas Shopping; An Eagle Nation; Family Matters, Tribal Affairs; and Winning the Dust Bowl.

Indian TerritoryCoyote Tells Why He SingsGeodeStone AgeSkins as Old TestamentDancing with DinosaursDriving in OklahomaWhat the Eagle Fan SaysBirch CanoeIn Chigger HeavenClose EncountersWazhazhe GrandmotherPonca War DancersOver by Fairfax, Leaving TracksGetting AcrossPure CountryCowboys and IndiansCommuning Before SupermarketsAn Eagle NationDragon-watching in St LouisThat Lightning’s Hard to ClimbAnd Don’t Be Deaf to the Singing BeyondLooking Before and AfterAunt Jewell as Powwow PrincessWhen Earth BringsIn the SuburbsA Mandala of SortsIn the Changing LightOutside in St. LouisWhat the Poet’s Cottage in Tucson Said How the Songs Come DownMaking MoneyTransactionsEarth and DiamondsAmber and LightningSnowflakes, Waterdrops, Time, Eternity and So OnUnzipping AngelsChristmas ShoppingGivenLiquid Crystal ThoughtsSea-changes, Easter 1990Law and OrderDiscovery of the New WorldNovember in Washington, D.C.History into WordsAnother Sunday MorningParading with the Veterans of Foreign WarsComing of Age in the County JailFree White and FifteenFirewaterA Response to TerroristsHamlet and Fortinbras Exchange PleasantriesThe BiograbbersSupport your Local Police DogCriminals as Creators of CapitalChimes at MidnightThe Secret VerbsOn the Planet of Blue-eyed CatsA Song That We Still SingStarring America1. To The Eastern Shores of Light2. New York, With Reservations3. On The ReservationOver ThereAdvice from EuterpeJetliner from Angel CityWhere the Muses HauntThe Swan’s SongPilotless Angel: Christmas, 2004Letter to Friends on the Isle of SkyePostcolonial HyperbaggageColumbus Looks Out Far, In DeepBut Still in Israel’s Paths They ShineSongs of the Wine-throated Hummingbird