Native American

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYWhen My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a...

In Elise Paschen's prize-winning poetry collection, Infidelities, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems ". . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world." In her third poetry book, The Nightlife, Paschen once again taps into dream...

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONPostcolonial Love Poem is a thunderous river of a book, an anthem of desire against...

United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into one momentous volume. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this...

'I was blown away by Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS.' Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529604Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 1040Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every two weeks. Half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world today will be lost by the end of this century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888395443Author Chief Dan GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

"These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming." - Joy Harjo, Mvskoke Nation, U.S. Poet Laureate Pulitzer...

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of Tears from the bend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040638Author Tommy PicoPage Count 88Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House Books

The First Crusade was arguably one of the most significant events of the Middle Ages. It was the only event to generate its own epic cycle, the Old French Crusade Cycle. The central trilogy at the heart of the Cycle describes the Crusade from its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816519934Author Simon J. OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 158g

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man-available for the first time in the United States "i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative." Billy-Ray Belcourt's...

Like A New Sun features poetry from Huastecan Nahuatl, Isthmus Zapotec, Mazatec, Tsotsil, Yucatec Maya, and Zoque languages. Co-edited by Isthmus Zapotec poet Victor Teran and translator David Shook, this groundbreaking anthology introduces six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692302972Author Brian Sewell (The Native)Format PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Blaqrayn Publishing PlusPublisher Blaqrayn Publishing PlusWeight(grams)...

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with...

"[Momaday] must be ranked among the greatest of our contemporary writers."-American Scholar"Momaday's poems are rich with description, lush with dreaming, and filled with magic." - Library Journal (starred review)From Pulitzer Prize winner and revered...

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985255282Author Dr David BowlesFormat PaperbackImprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Identity and understanding are fluid and plural, yet the histories of violence and oppression influence and shape everything in the world because the past, present, and future exist in the same plane and at the same time. Gagaan Xʼusyee / Beneath the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943491070Author Diane GlancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas CityPublisher BkMk Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611862461Author Heid E ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University PressWeight(grams)...

In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of...

Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition. "The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and...

This new collection of poetry from Maurice Kenny explores identity, honours nature, and celebrates everyday life. Modern life is described, while Native American culture is glimpsed, ghost-like, on the margins. Natural bounty-flowers, fruits-is extolled...

Stands Alone, Faces, and Other Poems, Patrick LeBeau's first collection, is a self-reflective work on identity, ancestry, and family relationships voiced in three parts. "Stands Alone", the first voice heard, is the singular "he" - an entity lost in a...

This collection of poems and paintings is a merging of personal and cultural history that explores contemporary life on an eastern Indian reservation. The work examines the sometimes tenuous persistence of a culture that has survived for hundreds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943491117Author Bojan LouisFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas CityPublisher BkMk Press of the...

Adrian C. Louis's largely autobiographical verse is characterized by a bluntness born of self-irony and self-criticism. He attacks his subjects with an emotional engagement that is both tender and honest. Within the context of fallen ideals and lost...

Drawing its title from the 1863 Federal Act that banished the Dakota people from their homelands, this remarkable debut collection reckons with the present-day repercussions of historical violence. Through an array of brief lyrics, visual forms,...

A collection of poems exploring a continuing struggle with identity; Everything this poet touches upon is volatile - the poet himself, the people and world around him, ideas and mythologies, the ghosts of memory and the dreams of possible futures, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816544714Author Robert Davis HoffmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816540174Author Molly McGlennenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816523719Author Laura ToheFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948585033Author John SmelcerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Leapfrog PressPublisher Leapfrog PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816523283Author Diane GlancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816539628Author Santee FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938065071Author R Vincent Moniz JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Makwa EnewedPublisher Makwa EnewedWeight(grams) 295g