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Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas Volume 68
ISBN: 9780816528912 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Editor and poet Allison Hedge Coke assembles this 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.
They write from disparate zones and parallel experience, from... Editor and poet Allison Hedge Coke assembles this multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs of witnes...
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129,47 zł |
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Journey to Legacy: A poetic timeline of my life
ISBN: 9781466464094 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family is very important to Tanya. Therefore, she wrote this book to encourage others to leave a legacy to their loved ones based on moral, ethical, and cultural values. This book is a clarion call, which urges readers to not compromise their morals and to continually raise their standards. Poetry is used to express different phases of her life, as Tanya leaves footprints for others to follow on her Journey to legacy. In this second edition, Tanya takes you on a new journey in the fourth chapter, "Leaving a Legacy," which gives insight into her most favorite experiences of her Native American...
Family is very important to Tanya. Therefore, she wrote this book to encourage others to leave a legacy to their loved ones based on moral, ethical, a...
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67,92 zł |
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Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits
ISBN: 9781844718320 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calling upon the personal memories and ancestral antecedents of her Anishinaabe family heritage, Molly McGlennen writes poems for "Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits" that render the continuance and celebration of the complex realities of Native American life in the 21st century. McGlennen's collection of finely rendered lyrical and narrative pieces recounts the story of physical and spiritual nourishment, as the poet begins by telling her readers that her poems, like family recipes, are best served aloud.
Calling upon the personal memories and ancestral antecedents of her Anishinaabe family heritage, Molly McGlennen writes poems for "Fried Fish and Flou...
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68,83 zł |
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Real Indian Junk Jewelry
ISBN: 9781935218289 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry. Native American Studies. "Trevino Brings Plenty's tales focus on Native survival in the face of modern American displacement. He is a young Indian Odysseus, head up, going forward strongly, only occasionally getting distracted by urban sirens singing their songs of destruction. A dynamic, new Indian voice." Adrian C. Louis"
Poetry. Native American Studies. "Trevino Brings Plenty's tales focus on Native survival in the face of modern American displacement. He is a young In...
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67,64 zł |
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Into the Waves. Poems and Other Writings
ISBN: 9781927032022 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First colour edition. Readable, thought-provoking, inspirational. "A window onto our search for meaning." Poems, an aboriginal origins parable and essays on Universal Laws. Beverly Diana Blanchard is an Ojibway First Nation from Northern Ontario. A former Public Servant, she has been a consultant to First Nation and Inuit organizations on a variety of issues. She holds a degree in Economics from Laurentian University. Using the wisdom of Indigenous tribal cultures and ancient spiritual traditions as the foundation of her writing and workshops, she focuses on enabling people to explore, enjoy...
First colour edition. Readable, thought-provoking, inspirational. "A window onto our search for meaning." Poems, an aboriginal origins parable and ess...
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138,10 zł |
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Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930
ISBN: 9780812222180 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works--especially poetry--remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously reinvents the early history of American Indian literature and the history of American poetry by presenting a vast but forgotten archive of American Indian poems. Through extensive archival research in small-circulation newspapers and magazines, manuscripts, pamphlets, rare books, and scrapbooks, Robert Dale Parker has uncovered the... Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early w... |
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169,91 zł |
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Corpse Whale: Volume 73
ISBN: 9780816526741 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A self-proclaimed "vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial," poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century--a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics. Fearless in her craft, okpik brings an experimental, yet poignant, hybrid aesthetic to her first book, making it truly one of a kind. "It takes all of us seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling to...A self-proclaimed "vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial," poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary... |
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77,68 zł |
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A Vertical Mile
ISBN: 9780987870575 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Vertical Mile from Richard Wakefield is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. Keenly observed themes about people and the land they live in show a profound sense of awe before natural beauty and a love of country life, while recognizing the effect of indifference and inexorable technological advancement. Included are poems about childhood, seasonal changes, mountain climbing, religion and its questions and doubts, life and death, human origins. These poems of stunning artistry show Wakefield in complete command of his craft. This a memorable collection... A Vertical Mile from Richard Wakefield is a finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. Keenly observed themes about peopl... |
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86,09 zł |
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Even That Indigo
ISBN: 9780917658389 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,73 zł |
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Savage Sunsets
ISBN: 9780982696873 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country's centuries-old demons and confronts his own grief upon losing his wife to Alzheimers, revealing a writer at his peak and a poet unafraid to take chances. There is no room for misinterpretation; his diction is as clear-cut as a logged forest.
In "Archaeology", Louis writes about the Anglo invasion of Indian Country and its loss of Native traditions, language, and history. In "Savage Sunsets", he writes candidly about his wife's battle with Alzheimers and how the disease steals away their waning days together. As the... In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country's centuries-old demons and confronts his own grief upon losing his wife to Alzheim...
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64,51 zł |
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Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory
ISBN: 9780985133726 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What a mouthful Rain Gomez's book makes you swallow hard, goes down big easy. I can hear a river of blues in lines like "head high, legs sturdy back stalwart against the rough rub of white faced stares as we roll up to Albertsons." There's lyric, prose, confessional, even a classic seafood gumbo recipe, all laced with memories of the red people of the Southeast. Rain Gomez has proven herself the culinary master of poetry. Her book really cooks -LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker (American Book Award) & Evidence of Red Rain C Gomez's poetry is as multi-dimensioned andmulti-nationed as her...
What a mouthful Rain Gomez's book makes you swallow hard, goes down big easy. I can hear a river of blues in lines like "head high, legs sturdy back ...
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77,33 zł |
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A Cowboy Tradition: Poems from the Heart
ISBN: 9781934452875 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Cowboy Tradition: Poems From the Heart" is about ordinary people who spent their lives living and working the land on the Camas Prairie. These poems are based on real people from the author s memories of growing up in Nezperce, Idaho and about family members who have passed on and left their stories in the author s care. Some of the characters like Charley are fictional, but could have very easily existed in the past. This is a tribute to all the vaqueros, Californios, buckaroos, and cowboys who are still out there working the herds in the traditional way. You are the folks keeping alive a...
"A Cowboy Tradition: Poems From the Heart" is about ordinary people who spent their lives living and working the land on the Camas Prairie. These poem...
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52,93 zł |
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Calling Song
ISBN: 9781492365563 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This poetry arises from dreams, spiritual experience and events. "In the moment before sleep, an old calling song everywhere the same, churches, tribal longhouses, poetry asks, "from where does my help come. Where is my help?"
This poetry arises from dreams, spiritual experience and events. "In the moment before sleep, an old calling song everywhere the same, churches, triba...
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36,25 zł |
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Again the Far Morning: New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9780826348432 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun (1992), and In the Bear's House (1999). To read Momaday's poems from the last forty years is to understand that his focus on Kiowa traditions and other American Indian myths is further evidence of his spectacular...
Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his po...
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157,34 zł |
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Breath of our Ancestors: Quotes and Sayings
ISBN: 9781460211397 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the dawn of time there were... ...the Gitxsan who uttered the first words, told the first stories and sang the first songs. They gave description and order to the culture and handed it down through the ages. It was woven down from my ancestors to my grandfathers and my teachers. I have learned that if you want to write you need a master with words that connect with you. With their teachings my Gitxsan Elders have touched my soul. I thank God for the opportunity that I had to walk with them, I thank them for their great knowledge and for the privilege of allowing me to glimpse that...
At the dawn of time there were... ...the Gitxsan who uttered the first words, told the first stories and sang the first songs. They gave description a...
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138,05 zł |
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Four Directions
ISBN: 9780990320470 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Joseph Bruchac's Four Directions, the Manitou tells the whale, "I can change you / into an island of stone . . . you will not die / as the animals die / but wear slowly away / into waters / that love you." No transforming deity but one of our time's finest writers, Bruchac deeply and meaningfully renders the experience of bereavement and the experience of living our earthly destinies. The concluding poem, "Season's End," beautifully evokes our human effort to come to terms with mortality: "Within the sweat lodge we will drum, / remembering we are promised nothing. / It is reason enough to...
In Joseph Bruchac's Four Directions, the Manitou tells the whale, "I can change you / into an island of stone . . . you will not die / as the animals ...
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67,66 zł |
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The Land We Dreamed: Poems
ISBN: 9780813144580 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America's frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant has been lauded for his ability to capture the spirit of the land and its people. Kliatt magazine has praised his work, stating, "Survant's words sing.... This is storytelling at its best." Exploring the pre-Columbian and frontier history of the commonwealth, The Land We Dreamed is the final installment in the poet's trilogy on rural Kentucky. The poems in the book feature several well-known figures and their stories,... Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America's frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Su... |
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72,26 zł |
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Flower, Song, Dance: Mayan and Aztec Poetry
ISBN: 9780985255282 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,87 zł |
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Whereas: Poems
ISBN: 9781555977672 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award |
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73,36 zł |
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Moth Wing Tea
ISBN: 9780985129392 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,87 zł |
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