Speak to me words : essays on contemporary American Indian poetry / edited by Dean Rader and Janice Gould.

Other author Rader, Dean.
Other author Gould, Janice, 1949-2019
Format Book
Publication InfoTucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2003.
Descriptionx, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American poetry--Indian authors. --History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century. --History and criticism.
Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
Indians in literature.

Contents Introduction : generations and emanations / Dean Rader and Janice Gould -- Poems as maps in American Indian women's writing / Janice Gould -- Situating American Indian poetry : place, community, and the question of genre / Eric Gary Anderson -- Daydreaming primal space : Cherokee aesthetics as habits of being / Marilou Awiakta -- Beloved Woman returns : the doubleweaving of homeland and identity in the poetry of Marilou Awiakta / Daniel Heath Justice -- The power and presence of native oral storytelling traditions in the poetry of Marilou Awiakta, Kimberly Blaeser, and Marilyn Dumont / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- Ain't seen you since : dissent among female relatives in American Indian women's poetry / Patricia Clark Smith -- The epic lyric : genre and contemporary American Indian poetry / Dean Rader -- Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women / Paula Gunn Allen -- The style of the times in Paula Gunn Allen's poetry / Elaine A. Jahner -- Herbs of healing : American values in American Indian literature / Carter Revard -- Carter Revard's angled mirrors / Janet McAdams -- "Dawn/is a good word" : naming an emergent motif of contemporary native American poetry / Robert M. Nelson -- Call me brother : two-spiritness, the erotic, and mixedblood identity as sites of sovereignty and resistance in Gregory Scofield's poetry / Qwo-Li Driskill -- Song/poetry and language--expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz.
General noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-280) and index.
LCCN 2003008354
ISBN0816523487 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0816523495 (paper : alk. paper)