Asylum in the grasslands : poems / by Diane Glancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glancy, Diane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Plains--Poetry.

Great Plains.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]

Summary:

Poet, novelist, essayist, play-wright, and author of more than thirty books. Diane Glancy has established herself as one of the country's most versatile and prolific writers. Distinguished by her laconic honesty, her unflinching eye, and her skillful articulation of the commonplace, she presents Native American life-especially the ways it intersects with nonnative culture-in all its complexity and nuance.

In her new collection of poems, she explores the history of loss that has marked the Cherokee community. In a voice that is as economical as it is eloquent and as sophisticated as it is exhilarating, she describes the loss of family, the loss of cultural heritage, and the loss of old worlds as new ones encroach.

Contents:

If I were to tell a story 3

The Artificial Indian 5

Buffalo Medicine 7

Almost 9

The Cherokee as Light Fragments 11

Boarding School for Indian Women 13

Sister Mary Eustella Cruzievska, 1887-1938 17

Fodder 19

The Great Divide 21

Wajeema 23

Indian Summer 25

Meatloaf 27

I Hear a Medicine Man 29

Portraits of the American West 31

Landscape of Light 33

Hershel 47

The Funeral 51

Amelia's Breakfast 53

Girl Who Won the Minnow 57

Long Way Out 59

Home Cooking #29 61

Home Plate 63

Mother Good-bye 65

Doll's Bones 67

He Opens and Closes the Store 69

What the Mutt? 71

Chief Bemidji 73

Exegesis 75

Catfish Fishing 11

The Bowl of Judgments 81

Returning on an Oklahoma Back Road Late at Night 83

Easement (or, Now Let It Rest) 85

Asylum in the Grasslands 89

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 91

How to Explain Christ to the Unsaved 93

Last of the Man Dog 95.

ISBN:

0816525714

OCLC:

65340950

Publisher Number:

9780816525713