Review
...old Woman Loved To Sing
1880
1890
An Academic Poem For Indian Dissenters
After A Long Winter
After The Ritual
All Things Will Pass
At Dawn, Sitting In My Father's House
At Medicine Creek
The Bare Facts
The Bleak Truth Is
By The Time
Cather's Oeuvre
Collaborator
Contradiction
The Cove
Deer At The Keshena Amphitheatre, 1993
Deluge
Distances
Driftwood
Elan
Flute Maker's Story
For The Indians In The Mint Bar Who Robbed The Joint And Headed For
Frequently Asked Questions
Funeral Sermon
Getting Rich
Ghazal #1
Ghazal #2
Ghazal #3
Going Home
Grandfather At The Indian Health Clinic
History Of Unchi
How The Man Broke Horses
An Indian Reservation Song
It Is True That Women Have Always Had A
The James Bay Cree
Jesus Saves Or Don't Ask Me To Join Aa And Be A Fool
Journey: 1. Dream
Journey: 2. Memory
Journey: 3. Sacristans
Keya Pi
Killdeer In Snow
The Last Remarkable Man
The Last Word
Literal History Has Had Its Special Way
A Long Way
Make Believe
Masquerade
A Moment
Mount Rushmore
Muffled Thunder
My Flight
My Grandmother's Burial Ground: Paul Wahukezatininkeya, July 12, 1892
My Previous Life
The Mythmakers
Mythology Of The Eternal Homelands: 1. First The Loon Dived
Mythology Of The Eternal Homelands: 2. So The Muskrat Dived
Near Sheridan, Wyoming
Not Everything
November Day
A Poem For My Ex-brother-in-law
A Poet's Brief Address To The Students And Faculty Upon The Occasion
A Poet's Lament
Profile Of The Sun And My Aging Father
A Prose Poem
Remembering The Spirit And The Land In The Time Of Sitting Bull
Revision
Room Of God And Door To Heaven
Simile
Some Of My Best Friends
Spider As She Used To Be
A Summer Visit
Survival
Tatekeya's Earth
There Was Once
They Seemed
This Is The Road
To Whomever One Calls Whenever One Has A Quarter
Trespass
Visiting Professor And The Yellow Sky
The Way It Is
We Stood
When The Dakotapi Really Lived As They Wished
When You Talk Of This
Widowhood
Within Walking Distance
A Woman's Old Age
The World He Lived In
Writer's Choices
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
1880
1890
An Academic Poem For Indian Dissenters
After A Long Winter
After The Ritual
All Things Will Pass
At Dawn, Sitting In My Father's House
At Medicine Creek
The Bare Facts
The Bleak Truth Is
By The Time
Cather's Oeuvre
Collaborator
Contradiction
The Cove
Deer At The Keshena Amphitheatre, 1993
Deluge
Distances
Driftwood
Elan
Flute Maker's Story
For The Indians In The Mint Bar Who Robbed The Joint And Headed For
Frequently Asked Questions
Funeral Sermon
Getting Rich
Ghazal #1
Ghazal #2
Ghazal #3
Going Home
Grandfather At The Indian Health Clinic
History Of Unchi
How The Man Broke Horses
An Indian Reservation Song
It Is True That Women Have Always Had A
The James Bay Cree
Jesus Saves Or Don't Ask Me To Join Aa And Be A Fool
Journey: 1. Dream
Journey: 2. Memory
Journey: 3. Sacristans
Keya Pi
Killdeer In Snow
The Last Remarkable Man
The Last Word
Literal History Has Had Its Special Way
A Long Way
Make Believe
Masquerade
A Moment
Mount Rushmore
Muffled Thunder
My Flight
My Grandmother's Burial Ground: Paul Wahukezatininkeya, July 12, 1892
My Previous Life
The Mythmakers
Mythology Of The Eternal Homelands: 1. First The Loon Dived
Mythology Of The Eternal Homelands: 2. So The Muskrat Dived
Near Sheridan, Wyoming
Not Everything
November Day
A Poem For My Ex-brother-in-law
A Poet's Brief Address To The Students And Faculty Upon The Occasion
A Poet's Lament
Profile Of The Sun And My Aging Father
A Prose Poem
Remembering The Spirit And The Land In The Time Of Sitting Bull
Revision
Room Of God And Door To Heaven
Simile
Some Of My Best Friends
Spider As She Used To Be
A Summer Visit
Survival
Tatekeya's Earth
There Was Once
They Seemed
This Is The Road
To Whomever One Calls Whenever One Has A Quarter
Trespass
Visiting Professor And The Yellow Sky
The Way It Is
We Stood
When The Dakotapi Really Lived As They Wished
When You Talk Of This
Widowhood
Within Walking Distance
A Woman's Old Age
The World He Lived In
Writer's Choices
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
From the Back Cover
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is well acquainted with Saeva indignatio, that Swiftian sensibility which troubles the spirit of one who speaks for a people whose lands have been stolen from them, whose means of livelihood have been all but extinguished, whose spiritual valor has been derided and caricatured by their oppressors - while at the same time they are envied for their constancy and respect for life in all its rich forms. This generous collection of her poems will undoubtedly be as controversial as her previous book of essays, Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner (Wisconsin, 1996); but her bold satires and eloquent lyrics are hardly likely to be misunderstood. In this work, without casting aside the mantle of a foremost scholar of Indian history and current cultural affairs (she is editor of the eminent Wicazo Sa Review), Ms. Cook-Lynn joyfully and courageously embraces the people and the world she knows and loves: scolds their detractors, scarifies their enemies, sings and dances with them, loves them as much for their sins as for their virtues; venerates them. Thus through her sorrowful, mocking, searing indignation, we participate in her celebration of the indestructible human spirit.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
