Book
New poets of Native nations
Publication Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]
Physical Description
xvi, 284 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
"New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth--long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics--and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now"--Amazon.com.
Notes
"A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one native poets first published in the twenty-first century"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents
- Introduction: twenty-one poets for the twenty-first century / Anasazi ; Nightsong ; Downpour ; Paper water ; Elegy for yucca fruit woman ; Hole through the rock / 38 ; Whereas I did not desire in childhood ; Whereas re-solution's an act ; Obligations 1 ; Obligations 2 / From IRL ; From Nature poem ; From Junk / Waawiindamojig / A mighty pulverizing machine ; The Haskell marching band ; Passive voice ; Quarter strain / Owotanna Sececa ; Linear process ; Genetic code ; Quantum theory ; Dakota homecoming ; Theory doesn't live here ; Undivided interest / Leaving Tulsa ; Pottery lessons I ; Birthmark ; Chimera ; Blood moon triptych ; Canyon / Dome riddle ; Other small thundering ; American arithmetic ; The first water is the body / For the sake of beauty ; The sound of it ; Part gravel, part water, all Indian ; Blizzard South Dakota ; Northeast Portland ; Not just anybody can have one ; Red-ish brown-ish ; Plasmic kiln ; Song syntax cycle / Warming ; Her/my arctic corpse whale ; The weight of the arch distributes the girth of the other ; A year dot ; Dog moon night at Noatak ; She travels / Blackwater stole my pronoun ; In the cut ; What do they know of suffering, who eat of pineapples yearround ; As the owl augurs ; Stonewall to Standing Rock ; Horse vision ; The bear and the salmon ; When it rains it pours ; The bear was born / Anchor-screws of culture ; Toward Mount Scott ; Ever since I can remember ; What is left ; Before we are eaten ; Glitter ; Hinterlands ; Hillbilly leviathan / From Lisiensan Ga'lago ; From The Legends of Juan Malo [a Malologue] ; Ginen the Micronesian Kingfisher [I sihek] ; Ginen Tidelands [Latte Stone Park] [Hagåtña, Guåhan] ; (First trimester) ; (Papa and Wākea) ; (I Tinituhon) / Simple four part directions for making Indian lit ; How soon ; Dear Sonny: ; Among the almost decolonized ; The mute scribe recalls some talking circle / The petroglyphs at Olowalu ; On cooking Captain Cook ; Pele'aihonua ; Papatuanuku ; This island on which I love you ; Genesis / Casualties ; Crosscurrent ; Equilibrium ; We are the ones ; Heart Butte, Montana / A duck's tune ; Finders keepers: aboriginal responses to European colonization ; Ballast ; Catafalque ; Catafalque II ; The rope seethes / Now I'm a woman ; Thrones ; Green rainbow song ; Things to do in Suquamish ; Taken care of ; Aquarelle ; Light unburied, unchained ; Double vision / Amoroleck's words ; My standard response ; In memory of shame ; Abracadabra, an Abcedarian ; Bartolomé de las Casas, 1542 ; The poet I wish I was / Speaking through our nations' teeth ; It goes something like this ; Repatriating ourselves ; Snagging the eye from Curtis ; A half-life of cardio-pulmonary function ; ... Bee / The hands of the Taino ; Leaving the old gods ; Ghazal of body ; From "The collectors" ; Tiger on the shoulder ; Hunters, gatherers ; Earthling