Going to War With All My Relations: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Rose, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873585569 ISBN 13: 9780873585569

Publisher: UNKNO, 1993

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Calling Home The Scientists
Coarsegold Morning
Colonial Adventure
Comment On Ethnopoetics And Literacy
Dancing For The Whiteman
Dear Grandfather Webb From England
December
Earth Place
Excavation At Santa Barbara Mission
Fifty Thousand Songs
For Sarah, Cherokee Doctor
For The Angry White Student Who Wanted To Know
For The Campus Committee On The Quality Of Life
For The Complacent College Students Who Don't Think People
For The Scholar Who Wrote A Book About American Indian Lit.
Honani Chunta
If I Am Too Brown Or Too White For You
Lab Genesis
Margaret Neumann
Maria Returns To Clay Woman's House
Men Talking In The Donut Shop
The Mormons Next Door
Mount Rushmore
Muskogee
Naayawva Taawi
Notes On A Conspiracy
Questions For A Miwok Uncle: Ahwahneechee Man
Six Nations Museum
Song For The Warriors Taken Away
Thanksgiving [day] On The San Joaquin Daily
To Make History
To The Vision Seekers, Remember This
Trophy In Two Acts: On Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Well-intentioned Question
What Distinguishes Sunset In Seattle From Sunset In Chicago
Yellow Ribbons: Baghdad 1991
Zebra Rug On A Granite Floor
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

From Publishers Weekly

The title of Rose's ( The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems ) new collection aptly points to the complexion of her poems. A descendant of the Hopi and Miwok tribes, the poet-as-shaman gives voice to her brothers and sisters: "I let my tongue lick / your bones back together . . . / I light the fire / to heat your lips. / I touch your spirit / that was never in danger," she intones in a poem about the Anishnabec Occupation. Meshing her own experience with revisionist history and newsworthy events, she carves a place for herself amid the cultures surrounding her, such as that of the Mormons, who "like to play / that I want to change, / that I don't mind ending myself / in their holy book." Culled from earlier books, and including a hefty selection of new work, this collection places 20 years of writing in perspective. Rose's concerns have remained consistent: ecological, archaeological and feminist. Assuming a sometimes ironic, sometimes angry cowboy-and-Indian stance, the speakers of many recent poems draw on the poet's experience as a university professor, dealing with interminable staff meetings and complacent students. Throughout the volume, the writing is at times prosaic, rhetorical or gimmicky, but the spirit rings true.
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About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0873585569
• ISBN 13: 9780873585569
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96