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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... side here the Osage Reservation , on that Western side the Ponca lands— now we can see Uncle Woody gunning a Model A coupe down U.S. 77 heading to Anadarko maybe , he and Uncle Gus , and we're coming down , we're circling on the wings ...
... side , and on up the round hill to its west that we called " Bockius's Hill . " That was the last fence for a long time , where the real woods began the dense blackjack - oak forest of the Osage Hills on the west and north sides of our ...
... side of its smooth face you reached a little mossy ledge and could look across the crevice to an even higher ledge on the other side . There was what seemed to be a hawk's nest there , but there was no way to get up to it on that side ...
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FINDING A VOICE | 3 |
WHITE EAGLE EARLY | 11 |
BUCK CREEK TO OXFORD BY BIRCH CANOE | 19 |
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