Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth.

Series:

Sun tracks ; v. 59.

Sun tracks ; v. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth.

Genre:

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Notebooks.

Physical Description:

xii, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]

Summary:

An eclectic collection of poetry, prose, and politics. Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a text, a narrative, a song, a story, a history, a testimony, a witnessing. Above all, it is a fiercely intelligent, brave, and sobering work that re-examines and interrogates our nation's past and the distorted way that its history has been written. In topics including recent debates over issues of environmental justice, the contradictions surrounding the Crazy Horse Monument, and the contemporary portrayal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition as one of the great American epic odysseys, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn stitches together a patchwork of observations of racially charged cultural materials, personal experiences, and contemporary characterizations of this country's history and social climate. Through each example, she challenges the status quo and piques the reader's awareness of persistent abuses of indigenous communities.

Contents:

What about Art? 3

When we talk of 5

The Inadequacy of Literary Art 17

This Story 18

The Woman Who Wrote Poems 19

In This 20

There Is Something Off-Stage 21

Written in Kindness... 22

Books in Missoula 23

Messages as I Pass a Car 25

Hearing Spiders Pray... 28

People who read my work 30

Surrounded by Serbs on Rapid Creek 31

Birds, Yellow Jackets, the Sun, and an Old Man 33

Who Owns the Past? 37

Thoughts While Driving across a Bridge on Interstate 90 38

A Younger Sister, I Try to Believe in Myself 39

Another Place to Walk Back From 40

Who Are You, Tim McVeigh? 42

June 2004 47

Reading Guide to Aurelia 48

The Old Couple 54

Another Commencement Address 55

What I Really Said... 56

Omnipresence/Thunder 71

A Mixed Marriage 73

Writing Is a Hard Thing to Do 74

A Gentle Heart 76

A Poem 78

When I did graduate work 79

Whatever Happened to D'Arcy McNickle? 80

Going Away 91

When Scott Momaday 92

The Riverpeople 95

September 5/2004 96

Irony's Blade 101

Democracy in 2002 and the Free Press 105

Murder at the Nebraska Line 106

Change 107

October 2004 111

At Churchside, 1995 113

Contradictions... 114

A Commutative Poem about Graduate School 116

Exile 117

The condition 120

There is the widespread notion 122

In the Summer 124

There are few vocations 127

The Way It Is 129

Colonization 130

Trying to Make a Difference 131

Rabbit Dance 132

December Twenty-Eight 133

Sitting Beside an American Woman... 134

Out of the Mouths of Babes 137

A Cynic Assumes the Right... 141

Restless Spirit 142

Culture Wars 144

While Watching a Prairie Bird 145

Great literary events 149

Phyllis Schlafly says this 150

The Sioux say 151

The Morning World Is Like This 152

November 19, 2005 153

Must We Go to Delphi...? 155

Dakota Iapi Tewahi(n)da 157

There is a man 158

Metaphor 160

Anangoptan (Listen!) 166

Make Believe 168

New Myths of Feminism 170

What is a feminist? 171

Snowy Days and Nights 177

Rejoice, Rejoice 178

Below the Poverty Line 179

In Defense of Politics and Ethical Criticism 186.

Notes:

A brief collection of previously unpublished poetry and political commentary from the desk of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0816525838

9780816525836

OCLC:

69734484