Love at Gunpoint - Softcover

Northsun, Nila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972295844 ISBN 13: 9780972295840

Publisher: R.L. Crow Pubications, 2007

Synopsis

Poetry. Native American Studies. nila northSun's LOVE AT GUNPOINT is written with emotional honesty and biting elegance, embracing her tribal identity and confronting the challenges of being a contemporary American woman. Her poems are a confession of the extremes of her life: the highs of a first kiss, the lows of coming home to an empty house. "nila northSun's new poems are funny and brutal. In short, direct lines, she tells the story of a life filled with pain, shame, agony, and glorious little moments of joy. She is one of my favorite poets"-Sherman Alexie. Her book A SNAKE IN THE MOUTH is also available from SPD.

About this title

About the Author:

Nila northSun [sic] is a Native American poet and tribal historian, one of the best-known figures in the Native American Renaissance. Her gritty, realistic poems about life both on and off the reservation have made her one of the most widely read of all Native American poets.

Review:

"nila northSun's new poems are funny and brutal. In short, direct lines, she tells the story of a life filled with pain, shame, agony, and glorious little moments of joy. She is one of my favorite --Sherman Alexie, poet, novelist, filmmaker

"I loved this collection. Totally real and super soulful, northSun's writing is so honest it's almost shocking. I kept wanting to shake these poems by their shoulders and say, "How do you know so much?" --Beth Lisick, author Everybody Into the Pool

"Reflective, resounding, intricate, nila is both sensitive and profound..." --Jimmy Santiago Baca, poet, novelist

About this edition

• Publisher: R.L. Crow Pubications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0972295844
• ISBN 13: 9780972295840
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 71