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Poet, Native American activist, and former U.S. Marine Lance Henson has somehow filled his Strong Heart Song with both a deeply rooted sense of place and a profoundly restless energy. It is as if only the wanderer can see a place for what it is, as he passes through or stops briefly. Place names mark the titles of these poems. Sometimes the place is where he is, sometimes it is a hoped-for destination. In any case, these poems are much more grounded than most contemporary American writing outside of, say, Wendell Berry or Gary Snyder. Unlike those writers, though, Henson casts himself in the role of the outsider. Consider these lines from "journal entries march 12 & 13 1988 from greensboro bend vermont to little rock arkansas": "awakening just after dawn we pass under low moving rainclouds in / tennessee / there is the vague light of spring in the clear darkness on the ridges. i miss the early crow songs i know are being sung here / i wish i could escape the whistling wind in these bus windows / in this early morning sunlight." Henson's sense of longing characterizes many of these poems, and his poetic eye for detail is sharp and nuanced.
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Lance Henson was raised as a Southern Cheyenne near Calumet, Oklahoma. A member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier Warrior Society and a Black Belt in karate, he served in the U.S. Marines; later he became a Native American activist. He holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Tulsa and has worked as a poet-in-residence, read, and lectured in many American and European venues. He has published over a dozen books of poetry in the United States, and his work has been widely anthologized and translated into European languages. His volumes include Naming the Dark (Point Riders, 1976), Selected Poems, 1970-83 (Greenfield Review, 1985), and A Motion of Sudden Aloneness: Expatriot Poems (American Native Press Archives, 1991). He has also collaborated on an album of rock music and poetry produced in Italy and a play based on the Sand Creek Massacre produced Off Broadway in New York. Currently he teaches in Germany.
Poet, Native American activist, and former U.S. Marine Lance Henson has somehow filled his Strong Heart Song with both a deeply rooted sense of place and a profoundly restless energy. It is as if only the wanderer can see a place for what it is, as he passes through or stops briefly. Place names mark the titles of these poems. Sometimes the place is where he is, sometimes it is a hoped-for destination. In any case, these poems are much more grounded than most contemporary American writing outside of, say, Wendell Berry or Gary Snyder. Unlike those writers, though, Henson casts himself in the role of the outsider. Consider these lines from "journal entries march 12 & 13 1988 from greensboro bend vermont to little rock arkansas": "awakening just after dawn we pass under low moving rainclouds in / tennessee / there is the vague light of spring in the clear darkness on the ridges. i miss the early crow songs i know are being sung here / i wish i could escape the whistling wind in these bus windows / in this early morning sunlight." Henson's sense of longing characterizes many of these poems, and his poetic eye for detail is sharp and nuanced.
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Lance Henson was raised as a Southern Cheyenne near Calumet, Oklahoma. A member of the Cheyenne Dog Soldier Warrior Society and a Black Belt in karate, he served in the U.S. Marines; later he became a Native American activist. He holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Tulsa and has worked as a poet-in-residence, read, and lectured in many American and European venues. He has published over a dozen books of poetry in the United States, and his work has been widely anthologized and translated into European languages. His volumes include Naming the Dark (Point Riders, 1976), Selected Poems, 1970-83 (Greenfield Review, 1985), and A Motion of Sudden Aloneness: Expatriot Poems (American Native Press Archives, 1991). He has also collaborated on an album of rock music and poetry produced in Italy and a play based on the Sand Creek Massacre produced Off Broadway in New York. Currently he teaches in Germany.
Most of these poems, gathered from the last decade, appear for the first time in book form. Stark, militant, and searching, bearing a fierce witness, they comprise Henson's mature view of his American experience.
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Beta (What's this?)Strong Heart Song: Lines from a Revolutionary Text
The website for the author, Lance Henson, can be found on the Storytellers: Native American Authors Online website at http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/henson /
Created on Apr 27, 2006, last edited on Apr 27, 2006.
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