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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461797703321

Autore

Blaeser Kimberly M

Titolo

Absentee Indians & other poems [[electronic resource] /] / Kimberly Blaeser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-60917-008-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Collana

Native American series

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Indians of North America

American poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Absentee Indians; Absentee Indians; Twelve Steps to Ward off Homesickness; Recite the Names of All the Suicided Indians; This Guy Back Home; The Last Fish House; Passing Time; Studies in Migration; Of Landscape and Narrative; Studies in Migration; Tracks and Traces; Lines from an Autumn Litany; What the Sun Has Left of Amber; Imprints in Blackfeet Country; A Wash; Students of Scat; A Sequel; zen for traveling bards; Haiku Seasons; Evolutions; March 1995: Seeking Remission; March 1998: Seeking Solace; Another Midnight Flute; Kitchen Voices; Letting Go

Evolutionsyour old lost loves; Passing St. Kilian's; Motherbirth; Fetal Disposition; motherbirth; Baby Pantoum; fragments from a mother's journal; Don't Burst the Bubble; Up-Ducky-Down; Beyond Measure; From Memory's Daybook; This Song; From One Half Mad Writer to Another; Hat Tricks; letter, from one half mad writer to another; Where Vizenor Soaked His Feet; Cerca de Aquî; Bilingual; And Still You Refused to be a Shaman; Night Tremors; lament; Are you sure Hank done it this way?; Those Things That Come To You At Night; Anza Borrego, 1995; In the Tradition of the Peacemakers; Matrix

Of My AffectionsThose Things That Come to You at Night; Meeting Place; Epilogue; Y2K Indian

Sommario/riassunto

Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family



and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaeser's poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the mysterious passage from sleeping to wakefulness, or from nature to spirit, she reveals not merely the movement from one age or

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464171003321

Autore

Scafidi Steve

Titolo

To the bramble and the briar : poems by Steve Scafidi / / Steve Scafidi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, Arkansas : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61075-536-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (92 p.)

Disciplina

781.59903

Soggetti

Folk music - England

Folk songs, English - England

Folk music

Folk songs, English

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgments ""; ""Contents ""; ""One""; ""The Cradle""; ""The Boughs""; ""The Cavalry""; ""The Palace""; ""The Greeting""; ""The Telegraph""; ""The Pot""; ""The Tar""; ""The Well""; ""The Beams""; ""The Dance""; ""The Hatchet""; ""The Kite""; ""The Wine""; ""The Wheelbarrow""; ""Two ""; ""The Chickadee""; ""The Hymn""; ""The Bucket""; ""The Shark""; ""The Dish""; ""The Puzzle""; ""The Coin""; ""The Jar""; ""The Torches""; ""The Dollar""; ""The Cake""; ""The Bride""; ""The Robot""; ""The Swords""; ""The Parade""; ""Three""; ""The Pageant""; ""The Cemetery""; ""The Continent""

""The Dwarf""""The Gentleman""; ""The Ship""; ""The Woods""; ""The



Barber""; ""The Photograph""; ""The Goblin""; ""The Jellyfish""; ""The Button""; ""The Tower""; ""The Asteroid""; ""The Scythe""; ""Notes ""

Sommario/riassunto

<div>Steve Scafidi, a cabinet maker, is the author of two books of poetry: <i>For Love of Common Words</i> and <i>Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer</i>.</div>