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Speaking out of the known world, this powerful selection of Diane Glancy's poems transforms experience through new narratives, mytholigising history and social crisis. Tackling themes of disruption, loss and heritage, these poems invoke a wide range of familial and animal personae and environments: we find ourselves guided to a land filled with hope.
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The Ordinary Shape of Rooms The Ordinary Shape of Rooms Asylum in the Grasslands Buffalo Medicine If I were to tell a story Boarding School for Indian Women Meatloaf Asylum in the Grasslands He Opens and Closes the Store Fodder Returning on an Oklahoma Backroad Late at Night with 139,000 Miles on my Car The Relief of America Christopher Buffalo Jump, Blue Mounds, Minnesota Oklahoma Land Run Giving the Air Away Cinnamon Bear, Field Museum, Chicago The Shadow's Horse Tuning Story The Stockyard Series: Remuda Crow Standing Rez They Handed Out Bible Verses Like Oars Driving Words look for a place to belong Stones for a Pillow The Ladder The Swimmer A Cab Nowhere To Be Seen Leonard de Vinci's Monna Lisa dite La Joconde, The Stones for a Pillow Lone Dog's Winter Count Hamatawk Lone Dog's Winter Count Portrait of the Artist as Indian Here I Am Standing Beside Myself Homework Truck Stop on Highway 80 near Walcott, Iowa Portrait of the Lone Survivor Kemo Sabe The First Reader, Santee Training School, 1873 Coyote's Quodlibet Coyote's Shyness Coyote Meets the Bird Maker Coyote thinks of story as a living being Coyote's Skyness Coyote's Vision (Ado)ration You know the Indian Homage Buffalo Trip You know them by their stealing The light of (ado)ration Well you push your mind along the road Air for Flute Stop Waves in the Fold of the Lake (Ado)ration Theology of Deer One Age in a Dream If Words Were Shapen in the Animal Head Squirrels Bride Means Cook Pasture for Rent Iron Woman Without Title Iron Woman Aunt Fannie Fixes Bison Bourguignon I Am Not the Woman I Am Totem First Lieutenant Marine Plague Boom Town The Rain Stealer A Share of the Stair (or As I'm Talking I'm Becoming What I Say) Grand Portage Casino Slipping into what will hold onto Kissing the Sun Wyoming A condensation during flight Offering Great Great Grandmother Steps into the Room Reservation Solar Eclipse The Spirit Blesses You w/ Hardship Some Thoughts on Our Uncommon Language Photo Frames #1-10, Kansas City Stockyards (Or How to be Indian) Rooms House Rooms
About the author
Diane Glancy is a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches Native American Literature and Creative Writing. She was awarded a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the 2003 Juniper Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press for Primer of the Obsolete. Her recent collections of poetry are The Shadow's Horse and The Relief of America. Her novels include Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea, The Mask Maker and The Man Who Heard the Land.
Summary
Speaking out of the known world, this powerful selection of Glancy’s poems transforms experience through new narratives, mytholigising history and social crisis. Tackling themes of disruption, loss and heritage, these poems invoke a wide range of familial and animal personae and environments: we find ourselves guided to a land filled with hope.
