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Seven hands, seven hearts / Elizabeth Woody ; drawings by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
LIBRA PS3573.O6455 S48 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woody, Elizabeth, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Literary collections.
- Indians of North America.
- Women.
- Oregon.
- Women--Oregon--Literary collections.
- Indian women--Literary collections.
- Indian women.
- Oregon--Literary collections.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Local author.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Or. : Eighth Mountain Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- Seven Hands, Seven Hearts includes the entirety of Elizabeth Woody's highly acclaimed first book of poems, Hand into Stone - winner of the American Book Award - as well as new poems, stories, and essays. The work is united by common themes: a rootedness in the Northwest landscape, the histories of her ancestors, and the ongoing struggle to define what it means to be a tribal member, an American, and a woman at the end of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- I: By our hand, through memory, the house is more than form
- Buckskin
- Homecooking
- Story power
- II: Seven hands, seven hearts
- Reminiscent of salmon woman
- Water combined with throat singing
- The bridge
- Horse and woman
- We remember our relatives
- Weaving
- Shells on stone
- Longhouse I
- Longhouse II
- Sisters?
- Sisters
- Speelyay thoughts in Seattle
- Speelyay, again!
- Coyote folklore, in image and practice
- Distant cousins
- Deer!
- Chinle summer
- Unity
- III: Hand into stone
- Wyam: echo of falling water
- She walks along the river
- In memory of crossing the Columbia
- Black night stones and the shine of Abalone
- Hand into stone
- Of steps to drowning
- She-who-watches, the names are prayer
- The sense
- Originating fire
- Black fear
- Shaker church prayer
- Birds in this woman
- Spider woman's coyote bones
- She walks across the country
- Scratch medicine and tenements
- Siamese ghosts (the disturbed spirits)
- Speaking hands
- Custer must have learned to dance
- She is a stranger to intimacy
- A warrior and the glass prisoners
- Cold blood
- Hand to hand, the circles embrace
- Our reverence and difficult return.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Woody, Elizabeth, 1959- Seven hands, seven hearts.
- ISBN:
- 0933377312
- 9780933377318
- 0933377304
- 9780933377301
- OCLC:
- 31012750
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