Winning the Dust BowlUniversity of Arizona Press, 2001 - 212 Seiten Bootleggers and bankrobbers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Proctors and punters at Oxford. Activists and agitators of the American Indian Movement. Carter Revard has known them all, and in this book-- a memoir in prose and poetry-- he interweaves the many threads of his life as only a gifted writer can. Winning the Dust Bowl traces Revard's development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet. It recounts his search for a personal and poetic voice, his struggle to keep and expand it, and his attempt to find ways of reconciling the disparate influences of his life. In these pages, readers will find poems both new and familiar: poems of family and home, of loss and survival. In linking-- what he calls "cocooning"-- essays, Revard shares what he has noticed about how poems come into being, how changes in style arise from changes in life, and how language can be used to deal with one's relationship to the world. He also includes stories of Poncas and Osages, powwow stories and Oxford fables, and a gallery of photographs that capture images of his past. Revard has crafted a book about poetry and authorship, about American history and culture. Lyrical in one breath and stingingly political in the next, he calls on his mastery of language to show us the undying connection between literature and life. |
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... live in a suburb and a few years back noticed that a lot of other beings live there too , not only finding it a good place but singing about it , which led to writing this next piece , “ Given . ” It is ( as mentioned ) a suburban poem ...
... live , to go on , to move as the sun rises and never fails to cross the sky into the west and go down in beauty into the night , joining the stars once more to move serenely across the skies and rise again at dawn , letting the two ...
... live peaceably with the creatures beneath , how the shadow beings could taste again some sweetness , in words at ... lives or reversals of fortune or spirits crowding like those called up by Odysseus who come forward out of their dark ...
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FINDING A VOICE | 3 |
WHITE EAGLE EARLY | 11 |
BUCK CREEK TO OXFORD BY BIRCH CANOE | 19 |
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