New poets of Native nations / edited by Heid E. Erdrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erdrich, Heid E. (Heid Ellen), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Indian authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 284 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018]

Summary:

This anthology gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics.

"New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Heid E. Erdrich has selected twenty-one poets whose first books were published after the year 2000 to highlight the exciting works coming up after Joy Harjo and Sherman Alexie. Collected here are poems of great breadth--long narratives, political outcries, experimental works, and traditional lyrics--and the result is an essential anthology of some of the best poets writing now."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Twenty-one poets for the twenty-first century / Heid E. Erdrich

Anasazi ; Nightsong ; Downpour ; Paper water ; Elegy for yucca fruit woman ; Hole through the rock / Tacey M. Atsitty

38 ; Whereas I did not desire in childhood ; Whereas re-solution's an act ; Obligations 1 ; Obligations 2 / Layli Long Soldier

From IRL ; From Nature poem ; From Junk / Tommy Pico

Waawiindamojig / The promisers ; Okanan / Bones ; Winiiam Aagimeke / William making snowshoes ; Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the peepers say ; Jiikimaadizi / A joyful life ; Mazinbii'amawaan / Sending messages / Margaret Noodin

A mighty pulverizing machine ; The Haskell marching band ; Passive voice ; Quarter strain / Laura Da'

Owotanna Sececa ; Linear process ; Genetic code ; Quantum theory ; Dakota homecoming ; Theory doesn't live here ; Undivided interest / Gwen Nell Westerman

Leaving Tulsa ; Pottery lessons I ; Birthmark ; Chimera ; Blood moon triptych ; Canyon / Jennifer Elise Foerster

Dome riddle ; Other small thundering ; American arithmetic ; The first water is the body / Natalie Diaz

For the sake of beauty ; The sound of it ; Part gravel, part water, all Indian ; Blizzard South Dakota ; Northeast Portland ; Not just anybody can have one ; Red-ish brown-ish ; Plasmic kiln ; Song syntax cycle / Trevino L. Brings Plenty

Warming ; Her/my arctic corpse whale ; The weight of the arch distributes the girth of the other ; A year dot ; Dog moon night at Noatak ; She travels / dg nanouk okpik

Blackwater stole my pronoun ; In the cut ; What do they know of suffering, who eat of pineapples yearround ; As the owl augurs ; Stonewall to Standing Rock ; Horse vision ; The bear and the salmon ; When it rains it pours ; The bear was born / Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Anchor-screws of culture ; Toward Mount Scott ; Ever since I can remember ; What is left ; Before we are eaten ; Glitter ; Hinterlands ; Hillbilly leviathan / Sy Hoahwah

From Lisiensan Ga'lago ; From The Legends of Juan Malo [a Malologue] ; Ginen the Micronesian Kingfisher [I sihek] ; Ginen Tidelands [Latte Stone Park] [Hagåtña, Guåhan] ; (First trimester) ; (Papa and Wākea) ; (I Tinituhon) / Craig Santos Perez

Simple four part directions for making Indian lit ; How soon ; Dear Sonny: ; Among the almost decolonized ; The mute scribe recalls some talking circle / Gordon Henry Jr.

The petroglyphs at Olowalu ; On cooking Captain Cook ; Pele'aihonua ; Papatuanuku ; This island on which I love you ; Genesis / Brandy Nālani McDougall

Casualties ; Crosscurrent ; Equilibrium ; We are the ones ; Heart Butte, Montana / M.L. Smoker

A duck's tune ; Finders keepers: aboriginal responses to European colonization ; Ballast ; Catafalque ;nt Scott ; Catafalque II ; The rope seethes / LeAnne Howe

Now I'm a woman ; Thrones ; Green rainbow song ; Things to do in Suquamish ; Taken care of ; Aquarelle ; Light unburied, unchained ; Double vision / Cedar Sigo

Amoroleck's words ; My standard response ; In memory of shame ; Abracadabra, an Abcedarian ; Bartolomé de las Casas, 1542 ; The poet I wish I was / Karenne Wood

Speaking through our nations' teeth ; It goes something like this ; Repatriating ourselves ; Snagging the eye from Curtis ; A half-life of cardio-pulmonary function ; ... Bee / Eric Gansworth

The hands of the Taino ; Leaving the old gods ; Ghazal of body ; From "The collectors" ; Tiger on the shoulder ; Hunters, gatherers ; Earthling / Janet McAdams.

Notes:

"A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one native poets first published in the twenty-first century"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2019

Local Notes:

2018 Poets House Showcase.

ISBN:

9781555978099

1555978096

OCLC:

1002422179