Spirit matters : white clay, red exits, distant others / poems by Gordon Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Gordon, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Poetry.

Memory.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

161 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minnesota : Holy Cow! Press, 2022.

Summary:

"In parcels and particles, letters, images, repetitive themes, rhythms and sounds, 'Spirit Matters' invites views into shadow spheres, of creative memory, reinvention of storied characters and place, as reminders of how poetry might turn longing, back to the very sound memory makes as we honor the imaginative lives of people and place. A collection of poetry, informed by irretrievable letters of loss, love, trauma, forged by musing on imagined relatives, living, dead, yet to be, shaped by spirit of places of we can never return to without understanding the living power of memory, story and song"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: As If White Clay

Prologue

Untitled

Relative X: A White Clay Tabernacle of Grief

Abstract on Reminders

Sighted In

Another Eye of Memory, Fall Again

With a Rifle, a Flask

The Return of White Clay Brothers

From the Book of Zahquod, Letter Niizh

Dear Venus Zhaawanigiizhik

Dear Uncle X

Venus Zhaawanigiizhik (One of the Triplet Aunts)

Through the Refuge

Departure: A White Clay Soldier

Venus Zhaawanigiizhik: How I Learned To Love

Crow Woman You Dreamt Dark from the Name of Fire

It Was Snowing on the Monuments

Spirit Matters

This is How Your Great

Uncle Dies Zahquod Reaches Through the Hospital Wall to Fire

Interlude: Waterlogue, Spirit, Containers, Bodies

Living Water Lullaby for Dead Settler Language

Waterlogue Prelude: The Art of Water

Dead Settler Waterlogue

The River Tells, Sings to Us Sleeping

Countless Red Exits

A Dark Bar

Near a Poison River Dead GPS

August Again

Book of Samuel, Chapter Zahquod

Page Unknown

Another Spirit Fire Under Empire

Back Before We Returned to White Clay

The Archer Uncle

This Will Be Your Last Ceremony, You Think

Spirit Matters: In Remembrance

Shadow Boxes for Zahquod

Suddenly Cousin X

Uncle X

Venus Zhaawanigiizhik Tries to Kill (POV Uncle X)

Interlude: Ait Uncertain Longing

Broken Table of Contents

From Zahquod's Book of Dreams The Song I Wanted to Write is Traveling

Distant Otheri

Letter to Cousin X

Among the Almost

Decolonized The Mute Scribe Recalls

Some Talking Circle We Regurgitate

Diagnoses I Have Streamed the Arcane

Mother Tongue The Ailing Medicine

Comedian's Postcolonial Death Song Large Provocative Answers

Given the Crows Gliding Above Me

Mahtoha's Futile Attempt to Decolonize the Western History Meeting

Speak Dear Desert Crow

Postcolonial Dream Abstract no (Blue Shadow Uncle Sings the Sun Down) Venus Zhaawanigiizhik

Once Said Love Letter Delivered by Muskrat

I Want to See You

Catalonian Square, Palms and Light

The Lake Up North

What Remains

Dear Firefly

Memory Song for a Woman at the Southern Door

Rain I Almost Remember

Only Lyric Remains

Capable Sovereignly Erotica

Uncle X Like Virgil Needs

His Own Guide Passing Thoughts Over a Fire (Dear Crow Woman)

(Dear Crow Woman)

Clues to My

Own Silence Book of Samuel

Chapter Zahquod, Page Unknown

Zahquod

My Last Letter

Crushed Akiiwenzii

(A Disintegrating Grandfather Hologram) Letter to Zahquod, Spirit Matters

Let Us Be Painting, Painter, Singing, Singing, Singer For H.E. Ephemera

Try Not to Say Essence

Venus Zhaawanigiizhik: Soliloquy

At Times the Distant Other

Yet to Be Unnamed Arrival.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781737405122

1737405121

OCLC:

1262189760