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Skins and Bones: Poems 1979-87.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Paula Gunn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--Women authors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : West End Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- These poems offer a vision of history, Indian and colonial; stories of contemporary Indian life as current as headlines; and family poems emphasizing the rich cultural mix of the author's Laguna Pueblo-Sioux-Lebanese-Scots background. Allen always brings to her work a characteristic combination of rich discernment and critical intelligence.
- Contents:
- C'koy'u, old woman: songs of tradition. C'koy'u, old woman
- Eve the fox
- Malinalli, la malinche, to cortés, conquistador
- Pocahontas to her English husband, John Rolfe
- Milly Brant, Iroquois Matron, spraks
- The one, who skins cats
- Iroquois sunday: watertown, 1982
- Taking a visitor to see the ruins
- Heyoka, trickster: songs of colonization. Horns of a dilemma
- Fantasia revolution
- Yesterday's child
- Coyote jungle
- Teaching poetry at votech high
- Taku skanskan
- Naku, woman: songs of generation. What the moon saind
- Arousings
- Something fragile, broken
- Dear world
- Weed
- Myth/telling
- dream/showing
- Grandma's dying poem
- Sightings I: Muskogee tradition
- Sightings II
- New birth.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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