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This collection by Mohawk poet, James Thomas Stevens explores the effects of colonization on either side of the Bering Strait - China and North America. Three long poems focus on mapping, post-colonial emergencies and propoganda, while the short poems are personal experiences in China and Native America.
List of contents
- Introduction
- (dis)Orient
- Three Translations from Characters Found on a Lovers Body
- Five Poems from the Paintings of Lang Shining:
- Eight Horses
- Dog Under Flowers
- The White Gibbon
- Pheasants among Rocks and Flowers
- The Time-Telling Plant from the West
- Imagining Shanghai: 3 Poems:
- Bianfu
- Xishuai
- Long
- Canal
- The Mutual Life
- A Species of Martyrdom: The Huronia Series:
- Jean de Brébeuf
- Gabriel Lalemant
- Anthony Daniel
- René Goupil
- Jean de Lalande
- Isaac Jogues
- Noël Chabanel
- Charles Garnier
- Pax
- Lacrosse Night-Iroquoia
- Tonawanda Swamps
- Pan-Am
- The Awful Ease of Tides
- Alphabets of Letters
About the author
James Thomas Stevens is the author of four books of poetry, Tokinish (First Intensity Press 1994), Combing the Snakes from His Hair (Michigan State UP 2002), and (dis)Orient (Palmpress, 2005), Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (Subpress, 2006), and one forthcoming, The Mutual Life (Plan B Press, 2006). He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe, attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa and holds an MFA from Brown University.
