Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma

Author: Sy Hoahwah

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-02-15

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0826365957

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Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people discover that the Holy Grail has been on the North American continent for centuries, and in Oklahoma for the last two. Battling both human and supernatural enemies, Velroy, Mia, and Stoney struggle to get the Holy Grail out of Indian Country to save their families and community and bring true peace back to their ordinary, Dirty Shame lives.

A Walk with Frank O'Hara
A Walk with Frank O'Hara

Author: Susan Aizenberg

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-08-15

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0826366678

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Susan Aizenberg uses a range of techniques in her newest collection of poetry to explore contemporary daily life in a difficult world. She critiques gender, grief, culture, and the myriad experiences that define us. But even when grappling with old wounds, a strain of romance runs throughout the book, reminding readers that it’s between the love and the grief that we’ll find the moments worth being shared and savored.

Unruly Tree
Unruly Tree

Author: Leslie Ullman

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-08-15

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 0826366708

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The cryptic prompts—fragments, really—of Brian Eno’s and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies unveiled themselves to Leslie Ullman as rough translations from an obscure language. As an experiment, Ullman used each one as a poem title, and in doing so she accessed a thrill of freedom, uncertainty, and propulsion beyond her own familiar patterns and landscapes. In the process, she found herself exploring the literary, visual, and musical arts from angles that had never occurred to her before. Unruly Tree showcases the most successful of Ullman’s play, and the result is a marvelous work by a poet at the height of her craft. At its heart this book is about process itself—even when it applies to experiences outside the arts—and about reclaiming an inner freedom many of us lose in our lives as adults in these noisy, rancorous times.

Light of Wings
Light of Wings

Author: Sarah Kotchian

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-02-15

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 0826365973

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This haunting collection merges spirit and nature in a voice both elegiac and celebratory. Kotchian explores our deep connection to the natural world, one increasingly at risk even as it continues to surprise and inspire. From meditations on the dangers of global warming to supporting a friend with cancer, from grieving the loss of her own mother to celebrating nature from New Mexico to a wild Scottish island, the poems celebrate both solitude and companionship and enlarge our concept of belonging and community, offering us threads of resilience, persistence, and hope.

Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma
Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma

Author: Sy Hoahwah

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2024-02-15

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0826365965

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Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people discover that the Holy Grail has been on the North American continent for centuries, and in Oklahoma for the last two. Battling both human and supernatural enemies, Velroy, Mia, and Stoney struggle to get the Holy Grail out of Indian Country to save their families and community and bring true peace back to their ordinary, Dirty Shame lives.

No Parole Today
No Parole Today

Author: Laura Tohe

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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In prose and poetry, Tohe describes attending a government school for Indian children and the challenge it presented to her socially, culturally, and expressively.

Rain Scald
Rain Scald

Author: Tacey M. Atsitty

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 0826358683

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In this innovative debut collection, Tacey M. Atsitty employs traditional, lyric, and experimental verse to create an intricate landscape she invites readers to explore. Presented in three sections, Tséyi’, Gorge Dweller, and Tóhee’, the poems negotiate between belief and doubt, self and family, and interior and exterior landscapes.

The Woman Who Married a Bear
The Woman Who Married a Bear

Author: Tiffany Midge

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 0826356532

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Winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Midge deftly weaves Plains Indian myths into the present day and seeks to define love, the nature of desire, and identity in the twenty-first century. The book includes a series of poems, each titled “Considering Wakatanka,” that weave together the themes throughout the book. The Woman Who Married a Bear showcases the wholly individual voice of a talented poet.

A Poetry of Remembrance
A Poetry of Remembrance

Author: Levi Romero

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0826345107

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Levi Romero recalls the tradiciones of life in northern New Mexico--a way of life seldom represented in American poetry.

Hard Country
Hard Country

Author: Sharon Doubiago

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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First published by West End Press in 1982, this book-length poem about a journey across America has been out of print for a decade but has maintained its underground reputation as a major response to the male epic consciousness of twentieth-century American poetry. "In this political geography of the continent's body, the land is corporeal, erotic and ever-present. . . . Doubiago's imagination is always unified and political. . . . Sharon Doubiago is 'a complex of occasions,' a brilliant response to Whitman, an American poet, free, spiritual and gifted."--Carolyn Forché "A unique search for the meaning of personal and national history, narrated by a woman seeking her own liberation and fulfillment through struggle against the reactionary mores and politics of her time."--Thomas McGrath "Sharon Doubiago fearlessly enters the labyrinth of our history, our search and danger as woman as human as deep American wanderer. . . . It is a long saga, a woman's history and a history of us all."--Meridel Le Sueur