The Fork-In-The-Road Indian Poetry Store

Native Writers Circle Of The Americas First Book Award For Poetry These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire gather many nations of the world, some angry, some at peace. The nations' emissaries accept invitations to stand together at the Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store and turn rhythmically to the four cardinal directions, so that the earth can regain its balance. Facing East, the ambassadors see Flags of Mercy hanging over New York City and Nagasaki, then encounter and embrace a manic-depressive Native Hawaiian-Cherokee medicine man in Oklahoma City. Traveling closer to the moon and stars they fly with a dreamer in the Garden of the Bumblebees, and they listen in Weleetka, Oklahoma, to the last two living speakers of Yuchi. Turning North, the councilors ice skate with post-Vietnam revolutionaries on glacier lakes in Idaho. They chase grouse in snow two feet deep, ponder dormancy in hyphenated winters and university libraries, and learn the best way to build a fall fire. Facing West, they lie on cool, creek bed vulvas of earth in sweltering Great Plains summer, navigate a wilderness river in canoes, and kiss a lover at dawn in the Chihuahan desert. Finally, turning in the divine direction South, the emissaries hear The Story of The Seeds, a journey back to 1540, to the conquest of Mabila by De Soto. In a stream of survival, they emigrate with Choctaws on trails of tears from Mississippi to Oklahoma, before sharing big ripe melons in the delta of the Vegetable River. They finish their revolution facing east again, just before dawn.

Sommario

• PART I. Facing East
• Construction
• Council Fire
• Flag of Mercy
• Closer to the Moon
• Ceremony
• More Like Children
• Holhpokunna The Garden of the Bumblebees
• Mixed Blood
• Mother Yakni
• The Great Society
• Rain Dancers
• The Carpenter's Dilemma
• like a full moon over a thunderhead
• The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store
• PART II. Turning North
• Ochre Hole
• Revolutionaries
• The Big Woodpecker
• when you foresee the unforeseeable
• Diphthongs to Dipterons
• Stepping Out
• New York
• Earth Life
• Endangered Species
• Shimmering Thread
• Hyphenated Winter
• University Library
• Run
• Water Planet
• Winter Trees
• I Have Some Advice For You
• PART III. Facing West
• The Two-Pronged Stick
• Father Luak
• World's Largest Rez
• Journal Entry: March 23rd, Chihuahuan Desert
• Am I Seeing?
• halito akhana hello my friend
• Ballad of Kenneth Ruth
• Anumpa Apesa a Iti Hikia: The Judgment of Standing Trees
• Click Beetle
• Life's Work:
• I Found the Earth in Snails
• Snake Bags
• We Spoke French Throughout the Desert
• He Showed Them Snakes
• most cynics would laugh
• On the Nile
• All About Wind
• On That Great Plateau
• A Desert Love Poem
• PART IV. Turning South
• creator
• The Story of The Seeds
• No Goodbye
• Anumpa Boklukfi Hilha The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
• The Dogs Did Not Follow
• Black Crow
• The Lost Ponds
• White Bone Hooks
• Aiena e-Taloa We Sing Together
• Meadowlark, Large Family of the Plains
• Ragged Owl Nest
• A Popular Theme
• Bohpoli
• Mobius Garden
• Vegetable River
• Fire and Wind
• Fried Rabbit
• Digging Deeper
• Before Dawn

Info autore

Phillip Carroll Morgan is an enrolled Choctaw/Chickasaw bi-lingual poet who has enjoyed a 25-year artistic collaboration with his painter-sculptor wife, Kate Arnott Morgan. This collaboration has seen the birth of three children, as well as the production of The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the 2002 Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry. He has worked as a newspaper editor, business executive, building tradesman, guitar player, and rancher. He is currently a PhD student in Native Literature at the University of Oklahoma.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Phillip Carroll Morgan, Phillip Carroll Carroll Morgan
• Editore: Salt Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2006
• EAN: 9781844712670
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-267-0
• Pagine: 140
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Peso: 186 g
• Serie: Earthworks
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica