Riding the Earthboy 40 (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) - Softcover

Welch, James

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9780887482649: Riding the Earthboy 40 (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)

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ISBN 10: 0887482643 ISBN 13: 9780887482649

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997

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A reissuing of Riding the Earthboy 40, poems by James Welch.

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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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