Winning the Dust BowlUniversity of Arizona Press, 2001 - 212 sider Bootleggers and bankrobbers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Proctors and punters at Oxford. Activists and agitators of the American Indian Movement. Carter Revard has known them all, and in this book-- a memoir in prose and poetry-- he interweaves the many threads of his life as only a gifted writer can. Winning the Dust Bowl traces Revard's development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet. It recounts his search for a personal and poetic voice, his struggle to keep and expand it, and his attempt to find ways of reconciling the disparate influences of his life. In these pages, readers will find poems both new and familiar: poems of family and home, of loss and survival. In linking-- what he calls "cocooning"-- essays, Revard shares what he has noticed about how poems come into being, how changes in style arise from changes in life, and how language can be used to deal with one's relationship to the world. He also includes stories of Poncas and Osages, powwow stories and Oxford fables, and a gallery of photographs that capture images of his past. Revard has crafted a book about poetry and authorship, about American history and culture. Lyrical in one breath and stingingly political in the next, he calls on his mastery of language to show us the undying connection between literature and life. |
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... birds only whose life continues on the gourd , whose life continues in our dance , that flutter as the gourd is rattled and we dance to honor on a sunbright day and in the moonbright night the little girl being brought in , becoming one ...
... birds all around us while some of us dangled under a bridge — the kind of silly thing boys get up to for no reason other than daring each other- -so that the birds and other creatures we barely noticed , as we hung between life and ...
... birds brought down by the rumbling monsters of our prime time , manna dropped by monstrous human gods roaring past . What goes around , comes around - birds feast on flying ants , crawl- ing ants feast on birds , humans just keep on ...
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FINDING A VOICE | 3 |
WHITE EAGLE EARLY | 11 |
BUCK CREEK TO OXFORD BY BIRCH CANOE | 19 |
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