Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets: American Indian Studies
Editat de Adrian C. Louis Autor Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Wateren Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2008
Here's the myth: Native Americans are people of great spiritual depth, in touch with the rhythms of the earth, rhythms that they celebrate through drumming and dancing. They love the great outdoors and are completely in tune with the natural world. They can predict the weather by glancing at the sky, or hearing a crow cry, or somehow. Who knows exactly how? The point of the myth is that Indians are, well, special. Different from white people, but in a good way.
The four young male Native American poets whose work is brought together in this startling collection would probably raise high their middle fingers in salute to this myth. These guys and "guys" they are—don't buy into the myth. Their poems aren't about hunting and fishing or bonding with animal spirits. Their poems are about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans and 40-ounce beers, about getting enough to eat and too much to drink. And there is nothing romantic about their poetry, either. It is written in the vernacular of mean streets: often raw and coarse and vulgar, just like the lives it describes. Sure, they write about life on the reservation. However, for the Indians in their poems, life on the reservation is a lot like life in the city, but without the traffic. These poets are sick to death of the myth. You can feel it in their poems.
These poets are bound by a common attitude as well as a common heritage. All four—Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty—are Sioux, and all four identify themselves as "Skins" (as in "Redskins"). In their poems, they grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. It's a fight to the finish.
The four young male Native American poets whose work is brought together in this startling collection would probably raise high their middle fingers in salute to this myth. These guys and "guys" they are—don't buy into the myth. Their poems aren't about hunting and fishing or bonding with animal spirits. Their poems are about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans and 40-ounce beers, about getting enough to eat and too much to drink. And there is nothing romantic about their poetry, either. It is written in the vernacular of mean streets: often raw and coarse and vulgar, just like the lives it describes. Sure, they write about life on the reservation. However, for the Indians in their poems, life on the reservation is a lot like life in the city, but without the traffic. These poets are sick to death of the myth. You can feel it in their poems.
These poets are bound by a common attitude as well as a common heritage. All four—Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty—are Sioux, and all four identify themselves as "Skins" (as in "Redskins"). In their poems, they grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. It's a fight to the finish.
Din seria American Indian Studies
-
Preț: 131.52 lei -
Preț: 153.36 lei -
Preț: 108.74 lei -
Preț: 192.73 lei -
Preț: 265.42 lei -
Preț: 321.17 lei -
Preț: 393.86 lei -
Preț: 118.26 lei -
Preț: 264.55 lei -
Preț: 183.01 lei -
Preț: 105.77 lei -
Preț: 60.37 lei -
Preț: 101.90 lei -
Preț: 213.64 lei -
Preț: 252.01 lei -
Preț: 141.20 lei -
Preț: 184.74 lei -
Preț: 188.76 lei -
Preț: 186.20 lei -
Preț: 101.17 lei -
Preț: 182.46 lei -
Preț: 213.64 lei -
Preț: 263.60 lei -
Preț: 131.79 lei - 11%
Preț: 196.85 lei
Preț: 98.17 lei
Puncte Express: 147
Preț estimativ în valută:
17.39€ • 20.30$ • 15.10£
17.39€ • 20.30$ • 15.10£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780870138232
ISBN-10: 0870138235
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Seria American Indian Studies
ISBN-10: 0870138235
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Seria American Indian Studies
Cuprins
ContentsIntroduction by Adrian C. Louis<section 1>Trevino Brings PlentyHere We Go AgainGhost Shirt LitanyHow To Be an Indian Male in The Early Twenty-first CenturyTo Rid the EggThe QuestionNo EyesTo Find the Indian WisdomPark SandwichBuilding Rooms to Sell DreamsPart Gravel, Part Water, All IndianLife MoneyLakota Language Lesson with BenjaminMealsDead WhistleCrazy Horse NightmaresShe Is Now a PoemIt Is Called a Chow Line<section 2>Steve PachecoHistoryCity Elegy for a Nameless SkinUncleIndian CountryVeteran¿s DayLonesome NightRocksWaiting for the BarbariansSugar BowlOur LifeArrival SongBut Tonight I Praise ItPrairie PrayerThe Lower Sioux Reservation: Three ScenesWacipiHomelandHer BellyStar QuiltOn the Anniversary of Her WakeFirst of the Montheden prairie, minnesotaBrotherLove Poem<section 3>Joel WatersZoo WorldThe OuthouseDandelionsThe Linoleum HeartWannabeSpirits Underneath An Artificial Blue SkyRez Cars CrashInto The Turtle¿s CracksCherryThe Cigarette Burns<section 4> Luke Warm WaterArt Of Huffing PaintBlip BlipChief Bigfoot Death Pose and the Pawn Shop ReceiptIndian Health Service ClinicWelfare BlissMartin, South Dakota Needed a Martini WaitressA Christmas Without a DadJohn Wayne¿s BulletPizza PoemThe Jesus Of Pine RidgeReservation Casino (Fetterman¿s Revenge)This Is What Is Means To Say San Diego, CaliforniaRapid City Wino LamentOn Indian Time
Descriere
Here's the myth: Native Americans are people of great spiritual depth, in touch with the rhythms of the earth, rhythms that they celebrate through drumming and dancing. They love the great outdoors and are completely in tune with the natural world. They can predict the weather by glancing at the sky, or hearing a crow cry, or somehow. Who knows exactly how? The point of the myth is that Indians are, well, special. Different from white people, but in a good way.
The four young male Native American poets whose work is brought together in this startling collection would probably raise high their middle fingers in salute to this myth. These guys and "guys" they are—don't buy into the myth. Their poems aren't about hunting and fishing or bonding with animal spirits. Their poems are about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans and 40-ounce beers, about getting enough to eat and too much to drink. And there is nothing romantic about their poetry, either. It is written in the vernacular of mean streets: often raw and coarse and vulgar, just like the lives it describes. Sure, they write about life on the reservation. However, for the Indians in their poems, life on the reservation is a lot like life in the city, but without the traffic. These poets are sick to death of the myth. You can feel it in their poems.
These poets are bound by a common attitude as well as a common heritage. All four—Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty—are Sioux, and all four identify themselves as "Skins" (as in "Redskins"). In their poems, they grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. It's a fight to the finish.
The four young male Native American poets whose work is brought together in this startling collection would probably raise high their middle fingers in salute to this myth. These guys and "guys" they are—don't buy into the myth. Their poems aren't about hunting and fishing or bonding with animal spirits. Their poems are about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans and 40-ounce beers, about getting enough to eat and too much to drink. And there is nothing romantic about their poetry, either. It is written in the vernacular of mean streets: often raw and coarse and vulgar, just like the lives it describes. Sure, they write about life on the reservation. However, for the Indians in their poems, life on the reservation is a lot like life in the city, but without the traffic. These poets are sick to death of the myth. You can feel it in their poems.
These poets are bound by a common attitude as well as a common heritage. All four—Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Luke Warm Water, and Trevino L. Brings Plenty—are Sioux, and all four identify themselves as "Skins" (as in "Redskins"). In their poems, they grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. It's a fight to the finish.