Earthquake weather
Subtitle: poems
By: Janice Gould.
Series: Sun tracks ;; v. 33
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Indians of North America -- California -- Poetry.; Indians -- Mixed descent -- Poetry.
Description: It's unmistakable, that strangely calm air and sky that signals big change ahead: earthquake weather. These are familiar signs to Janice Gould, a poet, a lesbian, and a mixed blood California Indian of Koyangk'auwi Maidu descent. Her sense of isolation is intense, her search for identity is relentless, and her words can take one's breath away.

Sometimes reflecting acceptance, sometimes full of anger, Gould filters her work through the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of a lesbian of Indian heritage. Over and over again, she speaks as an outsider looking in at the lives of others - through a doorway, out of a car window, or from the shambles of a broken relationship.

Showing a steady courage in the midst of this alienation, her words are also stark testimony to the struggle of an individual caught in social and emotional contexts defined by others.
Table of contents: title: Mornings are like this; title: Ants; title: Sunday mornings; title: Blood sisters; title: What happened to my anger; title: Evening news; title: Friday evening; title: Outside language; title: The day of the dead; title: This energy in which we exist; title: Questions about the soul; title: Alphabet; title: Nightfall; title: Saturday morning; title: Trying to hold on; title: The sixties; title: Thursdays; title: Berkeley life; title: Easter sunday; title: My father; title: Our house; title: A journey; title: Mama's girl; title: Burdens of the heart; title: Companion; title: When I lived by the river; title: Snow; title: I learn a lesson about our society; title: Amorcita; title: Earthquake weather; title: Your least good lover; title: On Point Reyes; title: A flirtation; title: Late summer in the Sierra; title: Days without you.