Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - Native American

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River. Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their country. Called a "magician and a master" (San Francisco Chronicle), Joy Harjo is at the top of her form in Conflict...

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The full moon has always been a fascinating mystery, especially in cultures that turn toward nature and the sky for beauty and inspiration. In eastern and northern Native American tribes, in particular, the moon was used as a calendar, and rich folklore surrounded it.

In this collection of poetry, Rita M. Chmura writes about the different names for the full moon in Native American culture. Educational about the seasons, the months of the year, and the moon itself, the poems are a wonderful teaching tool for young children and for families to read together. Each poem is also matched...

UCR Emeritus Professor and U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera selected Allison Adelle Hedge Coke as the 2016 Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellow. In his selection, Herrera said he sought to honor Hedge Coke -for her precision of Earth, of suffering in and out of the Rez, of the workers unnamed, open roads knitted with tin shacks, Case '45 tractors, ancestor dust and the spirit tuned to caribou, America and song. For her translation projects of First Peoples across the entire hemisphere. For her unceasing teaching, humility, courage, and pioneering--for these offerings to the small...

In Earth Vowels we hear Duane Niatum's powerful autobiographic journey voiced not in a cacophony of consonants, but in the full tones of resonating vowels that round out his life. This collection of 60 poems (27 of them never published before) sings the songs of his cultures, the importance of tribal stories, history's bent rewriting of them, and his long embrace of lessons learned from them, nature, poetry, and art. A wise sketchbook of his journey to the poised acceptance of life, he muses, -I am content to live in the Ribcage/of the Almost Dead.- He ends his reflection softly...

Milton Blake boldly climbs into the skin of a cantankerous, eloquent Native American called Yellow Hammer, who stares with unblinking eyes at the staggering history of the American Indian. During this epic, poetic journey, the indigenous people's extraordinary lives, great chiefs, and unwavering spirit are vividly revealed and truly honored.

Blake's debut, eclectic work - from a collection of four - features Yellow Hammer's prolific poems alongside hidden histories, "letters to the editor," essays, and commentaries. Yellow Hammer's passion, anger, sensitivity, and earthy humor ring...

Milton Blake boldly climbs into the skin of a cantankerous, eloquent Native American called Yellow Hammer, who stares with unblinking eyes at the staggering history of the American Indian. During this epic, poetic journey, the indigenous people's extraordinary lives, great chiefs, and unwavering spirit are vividly revealed and truly honored.

Blake's second, eclectic work - from a collection of four - also contains Yellow Hammer's brutally honest views on topical themes, ranging from corporate greed to organized religion to environmental disasters. It features prolific poems...