Native American

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870135644Author Eric GansworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University PressWeight(grams)...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Oklahoma Book Award (Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780916727857Author Linda HoganFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Wings PressPublisher Wings...

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.AwardsShort-listed for A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry 2019 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781771664776Author Shannon Webb-CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955239332Author Black Lawrence PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint NomadicPublisher Nomadic

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 PressWeight(grams)...

The newest collection from poet, editor, and Bagley Wright lecturer Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical and haunted, these poems call attention to the experience of living as an...

There is a saying in Native American tradition that ""wholeness is when the shadow of the rider and his horse are one."" Although we usually focus our attention on what seems most real, Diane Glancy shows us that the shadow of our past has substance as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816520367Author Ralph SalisburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 137Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 199g

mahikan ka-onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional...

"A necessary, urgent, and affecting work." -Publishers Weekly "Tamez's poetry disturbs the mind with its bravery of language, musical indictments of culture, and profound good heart. She is one of our great lyric poets. This book is simply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816538522Author Casandra LopezFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time"" - ""The Crooked Good""Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe's work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of colonialism and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Colorado Prize for Poetry 2023 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781885635853Author Tommy ArchuletaFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Center for Literary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807047927Author Linda HoganFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

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...

"[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...

Lines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection...

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...

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer PrizeListed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2022Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in PoetryAmerican Book Award-winning poet dg okpik's second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685711122Author Naomi OrtizFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her "warm, oracular voice" (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks "from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571315434Author Sasha Taqwsəblu LapointeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948814256Author Linda HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950413041Author Anita EndrezzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Press 53Publisher Press 53Weight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a...

Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and Inuit in particular. In this collection, autobiographical details - motherhood, marriage, extended family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034391Author James WelchFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 92gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556595455Author Sherwin BitsuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.

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Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich's three previous poetry collections. Erdrich's new work reflects her continuing concerns with the tensions between science and...

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Unflinching and magnetic, the language and structure of Aurum never strays from its dedication to revealing the prominent reality of Native people being marginalized and discarded in the wake of industrial progress. While uncovering different forms of...