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This major selection of Revard's work lets you hear duets of humpbacked whales and wine-throated hummingbirds. You can walk on Skye, shoot craps in Las Vegas and see an ex-bank-robbing uncle get shot dead hijacking a shipment of bootleg whiskey. You can watch a swan become a soul, see glass fibers bring tomorrow from Japan, taste watermelons transubstantiating, and track vanilla honey to a beehive on top of L'Opera Garnier.
List of contents
- Indian Territory
- Coyote Tells Why He Sings
- Geode
- Stone Age
- Skins as Old Testament
- Dancing with Dinosaurs
- Driving in Oklahoma
- What the Eagle Fan Says
- Birch Canoe
- In Chigger Heaven
- Close Encounters
- Wazhazhe Grandmother
- Ponca War Dancers
- Over by Fairfax, Leaving Tracks
- Getting Across
- Pure Country
- Cowboys and Indians
- Communing Before Supermarkets
- An Eagle Nation
- Dragon-watching in St Louis
- That Lightning's Hard to Climb
- And Don't Be Deaf to the Singing Beyond
- Looking Before and After
- Aunt Jewell as Powwow Princess
- When Earth Brings
- In the Suburbs
- A Mandala of Sorts
- In the Changing Light
- Outside in St. Louis
- What the Poet's Cottage in Tucson Said
- How the Songs Come Down
- Making Money
- Transactions
- Earth and Diamonds
- Amber and Lightning
- Snowflakes, Waterdrops, Time, Eternity and So On
- Unzipping Angels
- Christmas Shopping
- Given
- Liquid Crystal Thoughts
- Sea-changes, Easter 1990
- Law and Order
- Discovery of the New World
- November in Washington, D.C.
- History into Words
- Another Sunday Morning
- Parading with the Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Coming of Age in the County Jail
- Free White and Fifteen
- Firewater
- A Response to Terrorists
- Hamlet and Fortinbras Exchange Pleasantries
- The Biograbbers
- Support your Local Police Dog
- Criminals as Creators of Capital
- Chimes at Midnight
- The Secret Verbs
- On the Planet of Blue-eyed Cats
- A Song That We Still Sing
- Starring America
- 1. To The Eastern Shores of Light
- 2. New York, With Reservations
- 3. On The Reservation
- Over There
- Advice from Euterpe
- Jetliner from Angel City
- Where the Muses Haunt
- The Swan's Song
- Pilotless Angel: Christmas, 2004
- Letter to Friends on the Isle of Skye
- Postcolonial Hyperbaggage
- Columbus Looks Out Far, In Deep
- But Still in Israel's Paths They Shine
- Songs of the Wine-throated Hummingbird
About the author
Carter Revard, Osage on his father's side, grew up on the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma. After work as farm hand and greyhound trainer, he took B.A.s from the University of Tulsa and Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship, Oklahoma and Merton 1952), was given his Osage name and a Yale Ph.D., then taught medieval and American Indian literatures before retiring in 1997. He has published Ponca War Dancers; Cowboys and Indians, Christmas Shopping; An Eagle Nation; Family Matters, Tribal Affairs; and Winning the Dust Bowl.
