Speak to me words
Subtitle: essays on contemporary American Indian poetry
By: edited by Dean Rader and Janice Gould.
Contributors: Rader, Dean.; Gould, Janice, 1949-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: American poetry -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.; Indians in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : generations and emanations / Dean Rader and Janice Gould; title: Poems as maps in American Indian women's writing / Janice Gould; title: Situating American Indian poetry : place, community, and the question of genre / Eric Gary Anderson; title: Daydreaming primal space : Cherokee aesthetics as habits of being / Marilou Awiakta; title: Beloved Woman returns : the doubleweaving of homeland and identity in the poetry of Marilou Awiakta / Daniel Heath Justice; title: The power and presence of native oral storytelling traditions in the poetry of Marilou Awiakta, Kimberly Blaeser, and Marilyn Dumont / Susan Berry Brill de Ramrez; title: Ain't seen you since : dissent among female relatives in American Indian women's poetry / Patricia Clark Smith; title: The epic lyric : genre and contemporary American Indian poetry / Dean Rader; title: Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women / Paula Gunn Allen; title: The style of the times in Paula Gunn Allen's poetry / Elaine A. Jahner; title: Herbs of healing : American values in American Indian literature / Carter Revard; title: Carter Revard's angled mirrors / Janet McAdams; title: "Dawn is a good word" : naming an emergent motif of contemporary native American poetry / Robert M. Nelson; title: Call me brother : two-spiritness, the erotic, and mixedblood identity as sites of sovereignty and resistance in Gregory Scofield's poetry / Qwo-Li Driskill; title: Song/poetry and language; title: -expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz.