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Swim You Every River

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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!!!!

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.

In reading this chat book I was very moved by the dept of personal experiences and love of this authors spiritual
poems.
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.