Rooms

New and Selected Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Rooms is a collection of new and selected poems by Diane Glancy. The rooms are spaces from previous collections – spaces influenced by memory and the pull of the past on the present. This collection of poems walks a line between balance and imbalance and struggles for an alignment of fragmented experiences. It tries to put into perspective the disparities of survival. It seeks to reconcile history and a broken heritage that results from a collision of cultures. These poems, written from 1986-2004, include work from earlier collections, The Relief Of America, The Shadow's Horse, Stones For A Pillow, (Ado)Ration, Boom Town, Lone Dog’s Winter Count, Iron Woman, One Age In A Dream, Offering, and a chapbook, Coyote’s Quodlibet. The title is taken from an idea, The Ames Room, which was a demonstration created by Dartmouth Professor Adelbert Ames in the 1940’s to show that we can look into an off-sided room, yet it will appear in proportion because the way we think something should be shapes our perception of it. If the mind is a trickster shaping the misshapen into a familiar form and setting upright what has been turned on its side, what does a lopsided perception do? Does it skew what is not skewed? What if history, in this case, Native American history, has been turned on its side? How does the off-sided perception of the vanquished warp normal experience? Rooms is a calling together of the tribes. These poems are a campground of voices in council.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-04-22
Mått140 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt236 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEarthworks
Antal sidor168
FörlagSalt Publishing
ISBN9781844710614

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Diane Glancy is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She was awarded a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the 2003 Juniper Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press for Primer of the Obsolete. Her recent collections of poetry are The Shadow’s Horse and The Relief of America. Her novels include Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea, The Mask Maker and The Man Who Heard the Land.

The Ordinary Shape of RoomsThe Ordinary Shape of RoomsAsylum in the GrasslandsBuffalo MedicineIf I were to tell a storyBoarding School for Indian WomenMeatloaf Asylum in the GrasslandsHe Opens and Closes the StoreFodder Returning on an Oklahoma Backroad Late at Night with 139,000 Miles on my Car The Relief of AmericaChristopherBuffalo Jump, Blue Mounds, MinnesotaOklahoma Land RunGiving the Air AwayCinnamon Bear, Field Museum, ChicagoThe Shadow’s HorseTuningStoryThe Stockyard Series: RemudaCrow Standing RezThey Handed Out Bible Verses Like OarsDrivingWords look for a place to belongStones for a PillowThe LadderThe SwimmerA Cab Nowhere To Be SeenLeonard de Vinci’s Monna Lisa dite La Joconde,The Stones for a PillowLone Dog’s Winter CountHamatawkLone Dog’s Winter CountPortrait of the Artist as IndianHere I Am Standing Beside MyselfHomeworkTruck Stop on Highway 80 near Walcott, IowaPortrait of the Lone SurvivorKemo SabeThe First Reader, Santee Training School, 1873Coyote’s QuodlibetCoyote’s ShynessCoyote Meets the Bird MakerCoyote thinks of story as a living beingCoyote’s SkynessCoyote’s Vision(Ado)rationYou know the IndianHomageBuffalo TripYou know them by their stealingThe light of (ado)rationWell you push your mind along the road Air for Flute Stop Waves in the Fold of the Lake(Ado)rationTheology of DeerOne Age in a DreamIf Words Were Shapen in the Animal HeadSquirrelsBride Means CookPasture for RentIron WomanWithout TitleIron WomanAunt Fannie Fixes Bison BourguignonI Am Not the Woman I AmTotemFirst Lieutenant MarinePlagueBoom TownThe Rain StealerA Share of the Stair (or As I’m Talking I’m Becoming What I Say)Grand Portage CasinoSlipping into what will hold ontoKissing the SunWyomingA condensation during flightOfferingGreat Great Grandmother Steps into the RoomReservationSolar EclipseThe Spirit Blesses You w/ HardshipSome Thoughts on Our Uncommon LanguagePhoto Frames #1-10, Kansas City Stockyards(Or How to be Indian)RoomsHouseRooms