Miscellaneous poems are just that, most were written to or using names from an Internet chat room. Many I first met online are now close personal friends.

Miscellaneous poems are just that, most were written to or using names from an Internet chat room. Many I first met online are now close personal friends.

The second volume of A Cycle of the West, dealing with the tragic defeat of the Plains Indians, includes The Song of the Indian Wars (1925) and The Song of the Messiah (1935). The former tells of "the period of migration and the last great fight for the bison pastures between the invading white race and the Sioux, the Cheyenne, and the Arapahoe," while the latter concerns "the conquered people and the worldly end of the last great dream." It closes with the battle of Wounded Knee, ending Indian resistance on the Plains.

Rawdon Tomlinson's Geronimo After Kas-ki-yeh tells the story of the famous Chiricahua Apache war shaman who, after his family is massacred by Mexicans in 1851, makes revenge the driving force of his life. The Chiricahua suffer loss of genocidal proportions. In later years, Geronimo suffers a recurring nightmare of his people dying like a sun, never to rise again. The ordinary and extraordinary events of his life and those of his tribe unfold from Mexico and the Arizona Territory in the Southwest to Florida, Alabama, and finally Oklahoma, where the dwindling tribe is held in captivity until...

Everything this poet touches is volatile-the poet himself, the people and world around him, ideas and mythologies, the ghosts of memory and the dream of possible futures, all seem to burst into fragments. Mark Turcotte uses poetry to gather up the pieces-the shards of joy and grief, peace and doubt, strength and temptation, questions and answers-as he tries to define and rediscover what is lost when everyday life becomes explosive.

In this bold new collection of poems, Belin presents a startling vision of urban California--particularly Los...

Originally published in a small-press edition, from Sand Creek makes a large statement about injustices done to Native peoples in the name of Manifest Destiny. It also makes poignant reference...

In words drawn from urban and Navajo perspectives, Sherwin Bitsui articulates the challenge a Native American person faces in reconciling his or her inherited history of lore and spirit with the coldness of postmodern civilization.

Shapeshift is a collection of startling new poetry that explores the tensions between the worlds of nature and man. Through brief, imagistic poems interspersed with evocative longer narratives, it offers powerful perceptions of American...