America the beautiful
Subtitle: last poems
By: Paula Gunn Allen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: West End Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albuquerque, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780981669359
Subjects: Poetry; Indians of North America
Other titles: Final poems of Paula Gunn Allen
Description: These poems, written in the last decade of Paula Gunn Allen's life, capture the variety, ingenuity, and complexity of this beloved and influential Native American critic and poet. In her lexicon, what makes America beautiful may come as a surprise: its horrors confront its hopefulness, its absurdities challenge its promise. A powerful, sustained lyrical and narrative sequence written in the midst of political and personal catastrophe, Allen's last book is at once a bonfire made up of the ruins of civilization, a call for one more effort to set things right, and a gift to us all from this fertile and generous writer.

Paula Gunn Allen was one of the most important voices in Native American literature and criticism. Her posthumous America the Beautiful is an eloquent and poignant tribute to the land and people she loved. In Part I she not only describes the beauty and power of nature, but she also fiercely warns of the danger it faces. Part II includes personal poems on topics such as her own Hubris, seeing herself as a bridge for others, and the excruciating pain of losing two sons. A forceful and touching book, America the Beautiful reminds us of what is important in the world and life.u  LaVonne Ruoff, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago.

America the Beautiful is a tour de force from one of Native America's most influential women writers. Paula Gunn Allen not only riffs on the madness of America's story, she allows her indomitable humor to show through: "I want to ask the trees if they're wishing they could move." America the Beautiful is a must read, must have, must teach, must re-read again, and again. At a time when those of us who knew Paula and her genius miss her most, her poetry comes to the rescue. In the dance of lines she writes, "all's cool the ends."--U  LeAnne Howe, Choctaw; Professor, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Every blue moon or so, America gets a truly original poetu  Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W.C. Williams, Allen Ginsberg. Paula Gunn Allen is one of 1 these true Americans. A maverick in her genuinely kind heart. A princess in her finely funky mind. A dancing bard in her soul. We shall not see her like for another generation. Read these poems with delight and wonder. It's how she lived, and died. I miss Paula down to the sorry bones of my being.-Kenneth Lincoln, La Cieneguilla, New Mexico --Book Jacket.
Notes: "July, 2010"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Apache Warrior, Apache Troop --; title: America the Beautiful I --; title: America the Beautiful II --; title: America the Beautiful III --; title: America the Beautiful IV --; title: America the Beautiful V --; title: America the Beautiful VI --; title: America the Beautiful VII --; title: America the Beautiful VIII --; title: America the Beautiful IX --; title: America the Beautiful X --; title: America the Beautiful XI --; title: America the Beautiful XII --; title: America the Beautiful XIII --; title: America the Beautiful XIV --; title: America the Beautiful XV --; title: America the Beautiful XVI --; title: America the Beautiful XVII --; title: America the Beautiful XVIII --; title: America the Beautiful XIX --; title: America the Beautiful XX --; title: America the Beautiful XXI --; title: America the Beautiful XXII --; title: America the Beautiful XXIII --; title: America the Beautiful XXIV --; title: America the Beautiful XXV --; title: America the Beautiful XXVI --; title: America the Beautiful XXVII --; title: America the Beautiful XXVIII --; title: America the Beautiful XXIX --; title: America the Beautiful XXX --; title: America the Beautiful XXXI --; title: America the Beautiful XXXII --; title: America the Beautiful XXXIII --; title: America the Beautiful XXXIV --; title: America the Beautiful XXXV --; title: America the Beautiful XXXVI --; title: America the Beautiful XXXVII --; title: America the Beautiful XXXVIII --; title: The Kingdom of Nye --; title: Three --; title: Another Shore --; title: Sin Verguenza --; title: Wayward Girl's Lament --; title: Skyscape --; title: Values --; title: Still Crazy --; title: Self Portrait and a Wish --; title: Dawn Sneaks --; title: I Understand When I Watch TV --; title: coyote rhymester on the lam --; title: All the Same Beans --; title: Which Way's Up, Doc? --; title: Borrachitarme Voy --; title: SE FUE (He Left [Himself]) --; title: Minding the Gap --; title: Treasured --; title: Love Poem --; title: How Near, How Far.