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Zusatztext Riding the Earthboy 40 is the most important book of poetry in all of Native American literature. James Welch is our Frost, Donne, Dickinson, and Stevens. (Sherman Alexie) Informationen zum Autor James Welch Klappentext Now with an introduction from celebrated poet James Tate, Riding the Earthboy 40 is the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welch's father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy. This land and its surroundings shaped the writer's worldview as a youth, its rawness resonates in the vitality of his elegant poetry, and his verse shows a great awareness of a moment in time, of a place in nature, and of the human being in context. Deeply evoking the specific Native American experience in Montana, Welch's poems nonetheless speak profoundly to all readers. With its new introduction, this vital work that has influenced so many American writers is certain to capture a new generation of readers. Zusammenfassung Now with an introduction from celebrated poet James Tate! Riding the Earthboy 40 is the only volume of poetry written by acclaimed Native American novelist James Welch. The title of the book refers to the forty acres of Montana land Welch's father once leased from a Blackfeet family called Earthboy. This land and its surroundings shaped the writer's worldview as a youth! its rawness resonates in the vitality of his elegant poetry! and his verse shows a great awareness of a moment in time! of a place in nature! and of the human being in context. Deeply evoking the specific Native American experience in Montana! Welch's poems nonetheless speak profoundly to all readers. With its new introduction! this vital work that has influenced so many American writers is certain to capture a new generation of readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Riding the Earthboy 40Introduction by James Tate Knives Magic Fox Verifying the Dead Song for the Season Dreaming Winter Toward Dawn Blue Like Death Crystal Picnic Weather Directions to the Nomad Gesture Down to Guatemala Life Support System The World's only Corn Palace Arizona Highways Night Hawk Trestles by the Blackfoot The Renegade Wants Words In My First Hard Spinrtime Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat In My Lifetime Spring for All Seasons There Are Silent Legends Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation Riding the Earthboy 40 Going to Remake This World Plea to Those Who Matter The Man from Washington Blackfeet, Blood and Peigan Hunters The Last Priest Didn't Even Say Goodbye D-Y Bar The Only Bar in Dixon Thanksgiving at Snake Butte The Renegade Wants Words Day After Chasing Porcupines Day After Chasing Porcupines Surviving Snow Country Weavers Visit Dancing Man Birth on Range 18 The Wrath of Lester Lame Bull There is a Right Way Getting Things Straight The Versatile Historian The Day the Children Took Over The Day the Children Took Over Call to Arms Two for the Festival You Gone, the King Dead Day to Make Up Incompletes Counting Clouds Grandma's Man Gravely Grandfather at the Rest Home Legends Like This Lady in a Distant Face Never Give a Burn an Even Break ...
