From Library Journal
Through the spirit of her grandmother, who "speaks in dreams," Glancy remembers, "In the Female Seminary we learned there is no grief/ in the next world." Hurtling into the present, she makes the fourth dimension a part of every poem: dry riverbeds evoke water, headlights are wolves' eyes, tire treads hold clay for pots. Dense with loss, the diction flattened, the syntax formal and controlled, these poems reflect the burdens of mixed descent (Cherokee and German/English): "The world moves at a slower pace for us, lumbering under/ the bitter weight of grace." Among these burdens are optimism and irony, as the compressed autobiography of "Photo Frames #1-11, Kansas City Stockyards (Or How To Be Indian)" gracefully details. Recommended, especially for women's studies and Native American subject collections.
- Rhoda Carroll, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Rhoda Carroll, Vermont Coll., Montpelier
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Black Kettle National Grasslands, Western Oklahoma
Blind Indian
Deer Woman
The Eight O Five
Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1850-1905
Five Loaves, Two Fish
Flooooood
Fog
Great Great Grandmother Steps Into The Room
Great Indian Father In The Subway
Hunting Ground Between Word And Meaning
Hustwayte's Wife
Indian Chant
Indian Girl Bored With Ceremonies
Iron Horse
Kiowa Dancers
Looking Under The Bed
Murmur Of The Respectable Squaws
Museum Of The American Indian, New York City
Museum Of The City Of New York, 103rd And Fifth Avenue
Prairie Mass
Red Stream
Requiem For A Child
Reservation
Reservation School For Girls
Seeking The Iroquois That Inhabited Pennsylvania
Short Night
Snowblind
Solar Eclipse, May 30, 1984
Some Thoughts On Our Uncommon Language
The Spirit Blesses You W %hardship
Start Of A Long Trip
There Won't Be Another
To See Sequoyah's Cabin
Tornado
Turtles
Two Animals, One Flood
War Dance At The Waldorf
The Wrecker Comes
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Blind Indian
Deer Woman
The Eight O Five
Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Indian Territory, 1850-1905
Five Loaves, Two Fish
Flooooood
Fog
Great Great Grandmother Steps Into The Room
Great Indian Father In The Subway
Hunting Ground Between Word And Meaning
Hustwayte's Wife
Indian Chant
Indian Girl Bored With Ceremonies
Iron Horse
Kiowa Dancers
Looking Under The Bed
Murmur Of The Respectable Squaws
Museum Of The American Indian, New York City
Museum Of The City Of New York, 103rd And Fifth Avenue
Prairie Mass
Red Stream
Requiem For A Child
Reservation
Reservation School For Girls
Seeking The Iroquois That Inhabited Pennsylvania
Short Night
Snowblind
Solar Eclipse, May 30, 1984
Some Thoughts On Our Uncommon Language
The Spirit Blesses You W %hardship
Start Of A Long Trip
There Won't Be Another
To See Sequoyah's Cabin
Tornado
Turtles
Two Animals, One Flood
War Dance At The Waldorf
The Wrecker Comes
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
