The Nature of Native American Poetry

The Nature of Native American Poetry PDF Author: Norma Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Essays introduce and critique the works of eight modern and upcoming Native American poets, and study how Native Americans have been influenced and have in turn influenced British and American literature.

The Nature of Native American Poetry

The Nature of Native American Poetry PDF Author: Norma Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
Essays introduce and critique the works of eight modern and upcoming Native American poets, and study how Native Americans have been influenced and have in turn influenced British and American literature.

Sing

Sing PDF Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816528918
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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A multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witness and reclamation. Unprecedented in scope, Sing gathers more than eighty poets from across the Americas, covering territory that stretches from Alaska to Chile, and features familiar names like Sherwin Bitsui, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Lee Maracle, and Simon Ortiz alongside international poets--both emerging and acclaimed--from regions underrepresented in anthologies.

Carriers of the Dream Wheel

Carriers of the Dream Wheel PDF Author: Duane Niatum
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Book Description
A collection of poems from sixteen Native American poets, reflecting the attitudes, values and memories of a shared cultrual heritage.

Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry

Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry PDF Author: Duane Niatum
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062506668
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Book Description
Representing the work of thirty-one poets since the turn of the century, this is the definitive anthology of Native American poetry.

Native American Songs and Poems

Native American Songs and Poems PDF Author: Brian Swann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486294501
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

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Book Description
Rich selection of traditional songs and contemporary verse by Seminole, Hopi, Arapaho, Nootka, other Indian writers and poets. Nature, tradition, Indians' role in contemporary society, other topics.

Earth Always Endures

Earth Always Endures PDF Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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This eloquent new anthology gives a vivid insight into the world of Native Americans. The chants, prayers, and songs in these pages vibrate with wisdom, joy, and terrible sadness. Underlying everything is a sense of the sacred - the wish, as one Yokuts poet says, to be "one with the world". The sixty poems in this collection are accompanied by over forty unforgettable duotone photographs by Edward S. Curtis. This stunning combination of word and image brings us closer than ever before to the heart of Native American traditions. The poems come from the woodlands, the plains, the deserts, and the pueblos. They speak of love, of war, of the known and the unknowable. Today's flowering of new writing by Native Americans has revived interest in the song traditions that underlie their work. This anthology aims to give a representative selection of the best of those traditions, from Maine to California.

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867927
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Book Description
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project—including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, and Layli Long Soldier, among others—to offer readers a chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. The chosen poems reflect on the theme of place and displacement and circle the touchpoints of visibility, persistence, resistance, and acknowledgment. Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, “that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.” In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a representative offering.

Durable Breath

Durable Breath PDF Author: John E. Smelcer
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Contemporary Native American poetry.

Voices of the Rainbow

Voices of the Rainbow PDF Author: Kenneth Rosen
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611453364
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Book Description
A collection of contemporary poetry by Native Americans.

WHEREAS

WHEREAS PDF Author: Layli Long Soldier
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979610
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.