Coyotesse Books is pleased to present the second book in our American Indian ChapBook series, Swim You Every River, by Shaunna Oteka McCovey. McCovey writes of life as a Yurok/Karuk Indian growing up on the Klamath River in Northern California with such elegance, such poise, yet heartbreak in the face of unending grace.
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Shaunna Oteka McCovey (Yurok/Karuk) grew up on the Yurok Reservation in Northern California. She holds degrees from Humboldt State University, Arizona State, and recently received a law degree from Vermont Law School. Her poems have appeared in News from Native California, Through the Eye of the Deer (Aunt Lute Books, 1999), and The Dirt is Red Here (Heyday Books, 2002). Her first full book of poetry, The Smokehouse Boys, will be published in 2004 under the Paula Gunn Allen American Indian Poets Series by That Painted Horse Press.
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True visions of California Indian women's lives...,
This review is from: Swim You Every River (Paperback)
In this short collection, Shaunna Oteka McCovey establsihes herself as a major poet in the field of American Indian literature. California Indians are sorely under represented when it comes to the publishing world, and McCovey's voice is poignant, distressing, hopeful and filled with faith in her Northern California tribal (Yurok/Karuk)center of the world. Her strong voice is California-centric, yet interstitial in scope. "Notes Found At An Indian Suicide" and "How To Pick Up A Guy At Club Hupa" are clearly unromaticized visions of contemporary life in Indian communities; her return "home" in "The Dance Dress" shows an affinity for place and landscape and the relationship between Native culture and sacred place. HIGHLY RECCOMENDED!!!!
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Reader from Jonesborough, Tennessee,
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This review is from: Swim You Every River (Paperback)
In Swim you Every River Shaunna Oteka McCovey has again presented powerful poems of marvelous vitality and variety ranging from wry humor and delight through anger and despair to guarded hopefulness. She is a young poet, and she brilliantly demonstrates awesome potential. As she evokes a oneness with the natural world, she, "with fins and scales", succeeds in flying with grace and magnificence. Ms. McCovey is a Native American poet, but her poetry, transcendent in its beauty and power, speaks to all.
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Swim You Every River,
By Judie Ammon (Salyer, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Swim You Every River (Paperback)
In reading this chat book I was very moved by the dept of personal experiences and love of this authors spiritualpoems. She has captured the ability to draw her readers into a world of beauty, sadness, excitment , anticipation and calmness. The poems describe what many people never have the courage to say. I loved the book and am eagerly awaiting the next book.
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