From a major American poet, a book of "unflinching hope."
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Oneida Indian poet Whiteman's work is among the best political poetry today, for it marries a marvelous control of rhythm and form with a commitment to speak out the tragedies of her subjugated nation. Reliance on natural imagery tempers (but does not make gentler) what otherwise might be merely accusatory poems. In "You Call Me Less Than All I Am," she asks us to "Call me a cedar growing from rocks. / Call me the record of earth's blessing. / Watch me curve, coil, throw a sinewy hook, / then come murmur with me." There is a cleanness to her predominantly visual imagery that brings it sharply into focus and often conjures a liturgical feeling: "Under a blaze of maples, / under birches shaking their catkins, / . . . let us walk gracefully in this living world again." Amen. Patricia Monaghan
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A person brought to death by grief cannot see the sky cannot hear bird song or children's voices Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Being Indian, Turtle Island New!
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A person brought to death by grief cannot see the sky cannot hear bird song or children's voices Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Being Indian, Turtle Island New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Star Quilt: Poems by Roberta Hill Whiteman on page 114
- Star Quilt: Poems by Roberta Hill Whiteman in Back Matter
- Messengers of the Wind by Jane Katz on page 176
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