Sing with the heart of a bear : fusions of native and American poetry, 1890-1999 / Kenneth Lincoln.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lincoln, Kenneth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--Indian influences.

Indians in literature.

American poetry--Indian authors.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 435 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]

Summary:

Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, The Path on the Rainbow (1918), which opened Jorge Luis Borges' university surveys of American literature, to thirty-five contemporary Indian poets who speak to, with, and against American mainstream bards. From Whitman's free verse, through the Greenwich Village Renaissance (sandwiched between the world wars) and the post-apocalyptic Beat incantations, to transglobal questions of tribe and verse at the century's close, Lincoln shows where we mine the mother lode of New World voices, what distinguishes American verse, which tales our poets sing, and what inflections we hear in the rhythms, pitches, and parsings of native lines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-425) and index.

ISBN:

0520218892

0520218906

OCLC:

40714045