Halfbreed Chronicles - Softcover

Rose, Wendy

3.8

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0931122392 ISBN 13: 9780931122392

Publisher: West End Press, 1985

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These elegaic and celebratory poems have been praised for their sense of pain mingled with the desire for wholeness, for the beauty of the author's accompanying drawings, and for the compassionate final section which brings together stories of oppression around the world.

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From Library Journal:

Rose is perhaps the most ritualistically oriented among American Indian poets. This is not always an advantage: fairly trite poems, put into ritualistic rhythms, at first seem more impressive than on second reading, while personal poems become weakened as emotion and experience gives way to an imposed ritual form. When ritual merges with contemporary American political consciousness, as in "Nuke Devils: the Indian women listen," Rose transforms anger into pride: "and nothing you can do/ will stop us/ as we re-make/ your weapons into charms." The book's final section represents an interesting new direction for Rose's work, as she evokes personified voicestortured social outcastswhom she finds representative of her own state. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor , " Soho Weekly News, " New York
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The Building Of The Trophy
Coalinga
Comparison Of Hands One Day Late Summer El Sobrante
Corn-grinding Song
Dancing For The Whiteman
The Day They Cleaned Up The Border: El Savador, Feb., 1981
Decided What To Do With Her
Drum Song
Halfbreed Cry
Hanabi-ko (koko)
Heredity
If I Am Too Brown Or Too White For You
Isamu
Julia
Kitty
Loo-wit
Memory Of Mares
Naayawva Taawi
Nuke Devils: The Indian Women Listen
The Poet Haunted
Robert
Sipapu
Story Keeper
Summer Rain About To Fall
Throat Song: The Whirling Earth
To The Hopi In Richmond
Truganinny
What My Father Said
Wounded Knee: 1890-1973
Yuriko
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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