Calgary Public Library

Voices of the rainbow, contemporary poetry by American Indians, edited by Kenneth Rosen ; illustrations by R.C. Gorman and Aaron Yava

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Voices of the rainbow

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edited by Kenneth Rosen ; illustrations by R.C. Gorman and Aaron Yava

contemporary poetry by American Indians

This haunting volume of poetry proves yet again that the powerful and moving voice of Native Americans must be heard

Winter Burn -- Blue Mountain -- Steps -- Swamp -- E Uni Que A The Hi A Tho, Father -- Seal at Stinson Beach / Roberta Hill -- Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer -- When Sun Came to Riverwoman -- Love Poem -- Poem for Myself and Mei: Abortion -- Deer Song -- Toe'Osh: A Laguna Coyote Story -- Alaskan Mountain Poem #1 -- Poem for Ben Barney -- Four Mountain Wolves -- Slim Man Canyon -- Prayer to the Pacific -- Indian Song: Survival -- In Cold Storm Light -- Sun Children -- Hawk and Snake -- The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain -- Horses at Valley Store -- Preparations / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Indians at the Guthrie -- Tribal Stumps -- Unhappy Diary Days -- February Park -- Tropisms on John Berryman -- Tyranny of Moths -- Thumbing Old Magazines -- Family Photograph -- Haiku -- North to Milwaukee -- Raising the Flag -- Seven Woodland Crows -- Anishinabe Grandmothers / Gerald Vizenor -- Salad La Raza -- On a Catholic Childhood -- Desmet, Idaho, March 1969 -- Getting Started -- Cinque -- Aaron Nicholas, Almost Ten -- Six Feet Under -- On Death and Love -- Custer Lives in Humbolt County / Janet Campbell Hale -- Flock -- Warrior Nation Trilogy -- Among Hawks -- Traels with the Band-Aid Army -- Sundown at Darlington 1878 -- Old Man Told Me -- Wood Floor Dreams -- Moth -- Sleep Watch -- Scattered Leaves -- Between Rivers and Seas -- Curtain -- Comanche Ghost Dance -- We Are a People -- Other -- Rain -- Crazy Horse -- Epitaph: Snake River -- Bay Poem -- Sitting Alone in Tulsa Three A.M. -- Image of City -- Old Story -- Anniversary Poem for the Cheyennes ... -- Poem for Carroll Descendant of Chiefs / Lance Henson -- My Brothers ... -- A Teacher Taught Me -- I Am of the Earth -- Simplicity Aims Circularly -- Hartico / Anna Walters -- The Coyote -- Driving in Oklahoma -- Getting Across -- Not Just Yet -- North of Santa Monica -- Another Sunday Morning -- ESP -- Advice from Euterpe -- Coming of Age in the County Jail -- On the Bright Side -- "But Still in Isreal's Paths They Shine" -- Home Movies -- January 15 as a National Holiday -- Support Your Local Police Dog -- Discovery of the New World / Carter Revard -- In Respect of the Elderly -- Fear -- Earth Song -- For the Children -- Andonis, My Daughter -- Six Eagles / Thomas Peacock -- Raven/Moon -- The Passion Drinker -- Red Rock Ceremonies -- The Week-End Indian -- The Dream Feast / Anita Endrezze-Probst -- Their Conelike Cabins -- Grandma Fire -- Memo -- The Spirit Craft -- The Speaker -- The Winds of Change -- Now the People Have the Light -- You Northern Girl -- Sand Creek -- During the Pageant at Medicine Lodge / Charles Ballard -- Keeping Hair -- Overnight Guest -- Reading Indian Poetry -- Summer -- Eveningsong I -- Eveningsong 2 -- Late in Fall -- The Meeting -- Spring in Virginia -- Spring at Fort Okanogan -- Bags Packed and We Expected This / Ramona Wilson -- Sitting Bull's Will ... -- Chrome Babies Eating Chocolate Snowmen ... -- Two Hookers -- Written in Unbridled Repugnance ... -- Tornado Soup -- A Blue Jeaned Rock Queen ... -- The Hoofer -- Agent of Love -- Cosmic Eye -- A Lost Mohican Visits Hell's Kitchen -- The World's Last Unnamed Poem / A.K. Redwing -- Hawk Nailed to Barn Door -- Wolf -- Sweat Song -- Death Chant -- Composition -- Untitled / Peter Blue Cloud -- Prelude to Memorial Song -- The Visit -- Sunflower Moccasins -- America's Wounded Knee -- Spring Cleaning -- Spruce -- Favorite Grandson Braid -- Name Giveaway -- Moon of Huckleberries -- First Grade -- Spokane Falls -- Wardance -- Morning Vigil -- Wardance Soup / Phil George -- Death -- Wishes -- Taos Winter -- The Mask -- Where Have You Gone, Little Boy -- To an Indian Poet / Patty L. Harjo -- Reservation Special -- Powwow Remnants -- Langston Hughes -- The Flicker -- Playing Pocahontas -- The Flint Hills -- Peyote Vision -- The Woyi -- Indian Love Song -- After the First Frost -- The Urban Experience Part One -- The Urban Experience Part Two -- Wisga -- My Dream -- The 49 Stomp / Lew Blockcolski -- The Story of My Life -- Anadarko John -- Removal: Last Part -- Land -- Drunk -- Something for Supper -- Rock Painting -- You / Carroll Arnett -- Eye of God -- Earth -- Week-Seek -- Bird of Power -- Buzz -- Elementary -- Ranier -- Thirsty Island -- Sunrise / Jim Tollerud -- February Morning -- Gallery of My Heart -- Janna -- My Friend the Wind -- Jackie -- Untitled -- Evening -- My Song / King D. Kuka -- For Tom Numkena, Hopi/Spokane -- For Drum Hadley -- Mother/Deer/Lady -- Alone Is the Hunter -- If You Can Hear My Hooves ... -- Could I Say I Touched You -- Oh But It Was Good -- Coming Home in March -- Pennsylvania WInter Indian -- Gaa-a-muna, a Mountain Flower -- Hummingbird -- Old Moke ... -- Wrap Me in Blankets of Momentary Winds -- For the Girls 'Cause They Know -- In a Double Rainbow / Harold Littlebird -- The Place of O -- What We Can -- The Place of V -- Before the Actual Cold -- The Way the Bird Sat / Ray A. Young Bear