Sign-In
Cart
Indian Giver
Paperback
Currently unavailable to order
Please enter your email and a message will be sent to you when this product becomes available on our website.
ISBN13: 9781935248804
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Published: Apr 12 2016
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Poetry at its most satirical and courageous. A tremendous book.--Seamus Heaney
Few voices in American literature are so honest and daring.--Mark Strand
One of our most brilliant poets.--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
I feel the primal grain and temper of the genuine here.--William Heyen
A lament, a protest, an inextinguishable song.--Sherod Santos
Among the best and most original poets in America.--Stanley Kunitz
Nothing short of splendid.--Robert Nazarene
The kind of energy found in the poems of William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder.--Joseph Bruchac
These poems tell harsh truths of hopelessness and genocide. The confusion of children whose religion is forbidden; the ironic poverty of a lottery winner; an alternate American history in which Columbus turns and sails away--in deceptively simple language, we hear the protest of survivors. 'Indian' is not a derogatory word. It's what we call ourselves.
AFTER A SERMON AT THE CHURCH OF INFINITE CONFUSION
At ten, Mary Caught-in-Between
came home from sunday school,
told every animal and bird and fish
they couldn't talk anymore,
told her drum it couldn't sing anymore,
told her feet they couldn't dance anymore,
told her words they weren't words anymore,
told Raven and Coyote they weren't gods anymore,
said god was a starving white man
with long hair and blue eyes and a beard
who no one loved enough to save
when they nailed him to a totem pole.
John Smelcer has written over forty books of poetry and prose. He is a member of the Alaskan Ahtna tribe.
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover