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Doubters and Dreamers
Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned “in jest” before UC Berkeley’s annual Big Game against Stanford: “What’s a debacle, Mom?” This innocent but telling question marks the girl’s entrée into the complicated knowledge of her heritage as a mixed-blood Native American of Koyangk’auwi (Concow) Maidu descent. The girl is a young Janice Gould, and the poems and narrations that follow constitute a remarkable work of sustained and courageous self-revelation, retracing the precarious emotional terrain of an adolescence shaped by a mother’s tough love and a growing consciousness of an ancestral a...
Beneath My Heart
Substantial, layered poetry deeply rooted in the author's Native American landscape. Personally and historically panoramic.
Earthquake Weather
A collection by an Indian poetess from California. In Blood Sisters, she writes: "I told you about the Maidu song my mother sang / in a scale I could never learn, / and about the tree on an old dirt road / where the white men lynched my people. /.../ We glance at one another / fall silent. / Americans do not know these things / nor do they want to know."
Seed
Every seed-each pinprick of promise in this green world-is a masterwork. And this Seed, this most recent collection of Janice Gould's poems, is unmistakably the work of a master. Arising from deep wisdom and humility, these lines flower from the poet's body. Clear and potently accessible, her poetry emerges from her spirit-borne vision, a vision wedded to the earth's sensory richness. How closely she looks, how wisely she sees into her own dark and complicated affections. Seed is the gift from this master at her work. -Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita I have admired Janice Gould's poetry for many years, and now the poems in Seed offer me even more to praise. Such lyric simplici...
Speak to Me Words
Although American Indian poetry is widely read and discussed, few resources have been available that focus on it critically. This book is the first collection of essays on the genre, bringing poetry out from under the shadow of fiction in the study of Native American literature. Highlighting various aspects of poetry written by American Indians since the 1960s, it is a wide-ranging collection that balances the insights of Natives and non-Natives, men and women, old and new voices.
Postindian Aesthetics
Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary canon that is redefining the parameters of Indigenous literary aesthetics.
Sovereign Erotics
Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasn’t until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that book’s publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous Two-Spirit and Queer people. This landmark collection strives to reflect the complexity of identities withi...
A Generous Spirit
Foreword / by Lee Maracle -- Working class dreams: an introduction to the work of Beth Brant -- Native Origin -- Mohawk trail -- For all my grandmothers -- Coyote learns a new trick -- Garnet Lee -- Danny -- Her name is Helen -- A long story -- A sinple act -- Wild turkeys -- This place -- Food & spirits -- Turtle Gal -- The good red read -- Anodynes and amulets -- Recovery and transformation -- From the inside--looking at you -- Physical prayers -- Writing as witness -- Afterword: Beth Brant's gift -- Bibliography -- About the editor.
A Poetics of Resistance
A survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.
Reading Native American Women
This new collection reveals the vitality of the intellectual and creative work of Native women today. The authors examine the avenues that Native American women have chosen for creative, cultural, and political expressions, and discuss the points of convergence between Native American feminisms and other feminisms. Individual contributors articulate their positions around issues such as identity, community, sovereignty, culture, and representation. This engaging volume crystallizes the myriad realities that inform the authors' intellectual work, and clarifies the sources of inspiration for their roles as individuals and indigenous intellectuals, reaffirming their paramount commitment to their communities and Nations. It will be of great value to Native writers as well as instructors and students in Native American studies, women's studies, anthropology, cultural studies, literature, and writing and composition.
