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Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry Book

Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry
Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, 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, Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, 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, Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry
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  • Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry
  • Written by author Dean Rader
  • Published by University of Arizona Press, November 2003
  • 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
  • US scholars of literature, most with Native American heritage, examine specific works and poets, and general themes. Their topics include poems as maps in American Indian women's writing, the doubleweaving of homeland and identity in the poetry of Marilou
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Generations and Emanations3
Poems as Maps in American Indian Women's Writing21
Situating American Indian Poetry: Place, Community, and the Question of Genre34
Daydreaming Primal Space: Cherokee Aesthetics as Habits of Being56
Beloved Woman Returns: The Doubleweaving of Homeland and Identity in the Poetry of Marilou Awiakta71
The Power and Presence of Native Oral Storytelling Traditions in the Poetry of Marilou Awiakta, Kimberly Blaeser, and Marilyn Dumont82
Ain't Seen You Since: Dissent among Female Relatives in American Indian Women's Poetry103
The Epic Lyric: Genre and Contemporary American Indian Poetry123
Answering the Deer: Genocide and Continuance in the Poetry of American Indian Women143
The Style of the Times in Paula Gunn Allen's Poetry153
Herbs of Healing: American Values in American Indian Literature172
Carter Revard's Angled Mirrors193
"Dawn / Is a Good Word": Naming an Emergent Motif of Contemporary Native American Poetry207
Call Me Brother: Two-Spiritness, the Erotic, and Mixedblood Identity as Sites of Sovereignty and Resistance in Gregory Scofield's Poetry222
Song/Poetry and Language - Expression and Perception235
Notes247
Suggestions for Further Reading269
Source Acknowledgments281
Contributors283
Index287


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