LEADER 03583nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910790268703321 005 20230607231053.0 010 $a1-60917-008-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187063 035 $a(EBL)1672259 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000652357 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11398769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652357 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10638571 035 $a(PQKB)11665686 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338248 035 $a(OCoLC)608427848 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18730 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338248 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10553691 035 $a(OCoLC)923249553 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187063 100 $a20020507d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbsentee Indians & other poems$b[electronic resource] /$fKimberly Blaeser 210 $aEast Lansing $cMichigan State University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (145 p.) 225 1 $aNative American series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87013-607-0 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aEvolutionsyour 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 Aqui?; 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 327 $aOf My AffectionsThose Things That Come to You at Night; Meeting Place; Epilogue; Y2K Indian 330 $a Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaeser's poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the mysterious passage from sleeping to wakefulness, or from nature to spirit, she reveals not merely the movement from one age or 410 0$aNative American series (East Lansing, Mich.) 517 3 $aAbsentee Indians and other poems 606 $aIndians of North America$vPoetry 606 $aAmerican poetry 615 0$aIndians of North America 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aBlaeser$b Kimberly M$0544605 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790268703321 996 $aAbsentee Indians & other poems$93830499 997 $aUNINA