Miracles of sainted earth / Victoria Edwards Tester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tester, Victoria Edwards, 1964-

Series:

Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southwestern States--Poetry.

Southwestern States.

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 155 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2002]

Summary:

Victoria Edwards Tester speaks as a woman who knows what it feels like to be censored and who defiantly resists self-censorship. Tester's poems listen to the past and to creatures, land, and ghosts who most people can't hear at all.

Her poems are rooted in New Mexico history but they transcend regional boundaries. She uses metaphor to reconcile what rationally doesn't appear to belong together. Her work is an attentive intermingling of imagination and intuition, weaving together landscape, choice, accident, love, and tragedy.

"It was after I saw the saints behind their iron grilles and even the children weaving their tiny crosses torn from the laughter of winter jasmine into the saints' cages, that I decided to leave my prison of grief. When I opened my mouth an exquisite white spider crawled into the world on her eight legs.from "Chimayi"

ISBN:

0826327788

OCLC:

47989813