The Nature of Native American Poetry

The Nature of Native American Poetry
Author: Norma Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Essays introduce and critique the works of eight modern and upcoming Native American poets, and study how Native Americans have been influenced and have in turn influenced British and American literature.

Carriers of the Dream Wheel

Carriers of the Dream Wheel
Author: Duane Niatum
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1975
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

A collection of poems from sixteen Native American poets, reflecting the attitudes, values and memories of a shared cultrual heritage.

Native American Songs and Poems

Native American Songs and Poems
Author: Brian Swann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1996-09-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486294501

Rich selection of traditional songs and contemporary verse by Seminole, Hopi, Arapaho, Nootka, other Indian writers and poets. Nature, tradition, Indians' role in contemporary society, other topics.

Earth Always Endures

Earth Always Endures
Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1996
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

This eloquent new anthology gives a vivid insight into the world of Native Americans. The chants, prayers, and songs in these pages vibrate with wisdom, joy, and terrible sadness. Underlying everything is a sense of the sacred - the wish, as one Yokuts poet says, to be "one with the world". The sixty poems in this collection are accompanied by over forty unforgettable duotone photographs by Edward S. Curtis. This stunning combination of word and image brings us closer than ever before to the heart of Native American traditions. The poems come from the woodlands, the plains, the deserts, and the pueblos. They speak of love, of war, of the known and the unknowable. Today's flowering of new writing by Native Americans has revived interest in the song traditions that underlie their work. This anthology aims to give a representative selection of the best of those traditions, from Maine to California.

Native American Poetry

Native American Poetry
Author: George W. Cronyn
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486120988

Translated by leading scholars and poets, these ancient and modern songs span tribal traditions — Iroquois, Cherokee, Navajo, Eskimo, and more — offering authentic insights into personal and ceremonial life.

A History of American Poetry

A History of American Poetry
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1118795350

A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries

Voices of the Rainbow

Voices of the Rainbow
Author: Kenneth Rosen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1611459508

Kenneth Rosen’s haunting volume of poetry proves that the powerful and moving voice of Native Americans must be heard. More than two hundred poems embrace anguish, pride, and hope, representing twenty-four tribal affiliations, including, Sioux, Pawnee, Choctaw, Seminole, Laguna Pueblo, Cherokee, Anishinabe, Mohawk, Seneca, and Seminole. An Indian leader once asked a U.S. president: “What visions, under the white man’s way, are offered that will cause today’s children to want tomorrow to come?” In a sense, each poem in this volume is an attempt to confront and answer that very question.

A Companion to American Poetry

A Companion to American Poetry
Author: Mary McAleer Balkun
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2022-04-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119669685

A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY A Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Organized thematically, the Companion’s thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries. Both a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, A Companion to American Poetry is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.

The New Anthology of American Poetry

The New Anthology of American Poetry
Author: Steven Gould Axelrod
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0813531624

Overview: Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano continue the standard of excellence set in Volumes I and II of this extraordinary anthology. Volume III provides the most compelling and wide-ranging selection available of American poetry from 1950 to the present. Its contents are just as diverse and multifaceted as America itself and invite readers to explore the world of poetry in the larger historical context of American culture. Nearly three hundred poems allow readers to explore canonical works by such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath, as well as song lyrics from such popular musicians as Bob Dylan and Queen Latifah. Because contemporary American culture transcends the borders of the continental United States, the anthology also includes numerous transnational poets, from Julia de Burgos to Derek Walcott. Whether they are the works of oblique avant-gardists like John Ashbery or direct, populist poets like Allen Ginsberg, all of the selections are accompanied by extensive introductions and footnotes, making the great poetry of the period fully accessible to readers for the first time.