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Native American Poetry
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About the Author
JAMES WELCH was born in Browning, Montana, in 1940. He is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Ft. Belknap Reservations, graduating from high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1958. He received a B.A. from the University of Montana in 1965. He spent two years in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Montana, studying with the acclaimed poet Richard Hugo. In addition to Riding the Earthboy 40, his only collection of poems, James Welch has written four novels including Winter in the Blood, The Blood of Jim Loney, Fools Crow, and The Indian Lawyer. He has taught at the University of Washington and Cornell University. Among his many awards are the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, an American Book Award and honorary doctorates from Rocky Mountain College and the University of Montana. His most recent book is a work of non-fiction about Plains Indians and the Battle of the Little Bighorn entitled Killing Custer which was published by Norton in 1994. Currently he is working on a novel about a Sioux Indian who went to Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1889.
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Riding the Earthboy 40 is the most important book of poetry in all of Native American literature. James Welch is our Frost, Donne, Dickinson, and Stevens. (Sherman Alexie)
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- PublisherHarper & Row
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0064519910
- ISBN 13 9780064519915
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages71
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hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1976. Harper & Row. 1st Harper & Row Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0064519910. 71 pages. hardcover. The painting on the front of the jacket is by Neil Parson, a Blackfeet artist from Montana. Jacket design by Christine Aulicino. keywords: Native American Literature Poetry America. DESCRIPTION - James Welch's father once leased forty acres in Montana belonging to the Earthboy family. RIDING THE EARTHBOY 40, the first collected volume of Welch's verse, draws many of its themes from life among the ranches, small towns and Indian reservations around the Earthboy place. Welch's poetry has that deceptive quality of art carved down to its bare essentials. His style is at once both direct and subtle: direct in the stark clarity of its images; subtle in its skillful use of natural vignettes from the Montana landscape to convey insights into the most complex aspects of human behavior. Welch's verse is firmly rooted in his native soil, but branches out broadly into the realm of universal experience. This is an expanded version of an earlier edition printed but not released commercially by World Publishing Company in 1971, shortly before it discontinued its trade publishing operations. This revised edition contains seven entirely new poems. RIDING THE EARTHBOY 40 is the sixth book in Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program. All profits from this program are set aside in a special fund and used to support projects designed to aid the Native American people. inventory #1118 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z1118
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. FIRST PRINTING of revised and expanded edition with seven entirely new poems. Original published by World Publishing in 1971. Sixth publication in Harper & Row's Native American Publishing Program. Highly acclaimed Montana author "Welch's verse is firmly rooted in his native soil, but branches out broadly into the realm of universal experience". 71 pages. 1/8" closed tear to top DJ spine. Mylar covered. A NEAR FINE COPY! LP. Seller Inventory # 001389
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Revised Edition. Pictorial wraps. 71pp. Excellent poetry by the young Blackfeet poet. One critic has written, "Welch was a part of the Montana literary renaissance of the 1970s" "Welch's first book . was also one of the first books of poetry by an unambiguously Indian writer, about Indian subjects. It was also the first such book arguably legitimate literature in its own right rather than a literary curiosity. " Vg+. Seller Inventory # 0903155
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