Native American

In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was taken from the Baptist...

In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful is a meditation on water, land, women, and violent environmental changes as they affect both the natural world and human migration. The poet reckons with the unsettling realities that women experience,...

"One finishes a poem feeling as though they have taken part in a singular event that can be returned and mined again and again without exhausting the kernel of mystery around which each poem swirls." BOMB Cedar Sigo's fourth collection restlessly...

2019 NCIBA Golden Poppy Award Winner - Poetry***San Francisco's 7th poet laureate-a Native American and native San Franciscan-explores urban space and the natural world.Deer Trails is a strongly elegiac evocation of a San Francisco that lies buried under...

Dark Traffic creates landmarks through language, by which its speakers begin to describe traumas in order to survive and move through them. With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane's work will see...

Light As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortiz's first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume celebrate the wonders and joy of love in the present while also looking back with both humorous and serious reflections on youth and the stories,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930100964Author Roberta Hill WhitemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Holy Cow PressPublisher Holy Cow PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

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

In Raven's Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann calls on readers to nurture material as well as spiritual life, asking beautiful and brutal questions about our individual positions within the universe and within history. The poems in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773660851Author Julie Pellissier-LushFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Acorn PressPublisher Acorn PressWeight(grams) 2640gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 140mm...

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...

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) 159gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713802Author Joseph DandurandFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 317gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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...

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 9781941040638Author Tommy PicoPage Count 88Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House Books

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...

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) 209g

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,...

"These poems erupted in the East Greenlanders heart-the human sea at the outer limit of the north-on Earth's most desolate and rugged shores. They were found in the living tradition of a small, recently discovered Eskimo people that I (Thalbitzer) had...

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 *...