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Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 9
Language
English
Description
Tales, legends and myths in English and Hopi writing.
Series
Sun tracks volume 8
Publisher
Sun Tracks & University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Series
Sun tracks volume 10
Publisher
Sun Tracks and the University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 15
Publisher
Sun Tracks
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one leading American Indian poets discuss the role of Native American culture in their work, the forces that shape contemporary Native American poetry, and the prospects of that poetry's surviving as a form apart from the poetry of the dominant culture.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 17
Publisher
Sun Tracks
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Images from Navajo country are accompanied by prose poems evoking the sacredness of the land.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 20
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
12) Woven stone
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 21
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 23
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems and prose in which Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso remembers the people and places she encountered during her childhood in Shiprock, New Mexico.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 28
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The weather--portrayed with vivid imagery--dominates this collection, set on the prairies. In Three Days Before Spring, Snow Again, he writes: "Wind is up again, / swirling and pushing around / like it had nowhere to go, / losing and finding things / and losing them again." By the author of Woven Stone.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 30
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Poems on those "who are not often heard from:" salmon, trees, edible roots, berries, deer. In Cricket, she writes: "Brilliant, he bristles as an undercover militant. / Hand winging in the air, / running the current of his backward hair. / Dogged, he insists on an argument." By the author of Hand into Stone.
Series
Sun tracks volume 29
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Native poetry. In Indians, Roxy Gordon writes: "Poetry is an Indian, / journalism ain't and / proper punctuation ain't. / Circles are Indians / and random lines are Indians. / Straight lines ain't ... / Health food stores try / hard to be Indian. / Living is Indian, / expecting to live forever ain't."
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 32
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A prominent poet presents a collection centering on her experiences growing up in a Tohono O'Odham family, and her profound appreciation for the seasons and desert climate.
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 34
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems and stories by a Navajo poet. In Ahidziskeii, she writes: "It's not a grand thing after all, / just that warm comfort in murmuring 'good night, ' / before I sink into that dark quiet / that exists only when we're together."
Series
Sun tracks volume 35
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Now it is My Turn to Stand. At Acoma Pueblo meetings, members rise and announce their intention to speak. In that moment they are recognized and heard. In Speaking for the Generations, Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz brings together contemporary Native American writers to take their turn. Each offers an evocation of herself or himself, describing the personal, social, and cultural influences on her or his development as a writer. Although each writer's...