Poetry of the American West
, by Deming, Alison H.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780231103879 | 0231103875
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/1999
-- The San Francisco Review
Preface: What the Land Has Inspired | |
Acknowledgments | |
Flower Songs | p. 1 |
Song for the Festival of Tlaloc, the Rain God | p. 3 |
My Friends | p. 5 |
Elegy | p. 7 |
from History of New Mexico | p. 9 |
On the Civilization of the Western Aboriginal Country | p. 13 |
The Prairies | p. 16 |
Song of the Desert | p. 21 |
Pioneers! O Pioneers! | p. 24 |
The Prairie-Grass Dividing | p. 30 |
Night on the Prairies | p. 30 |
Facing West from California's Shores | p. 31 |
A Cherokee Love Song | p. 33 |
The Stolen White Girl | p. 34 |
Plain Language from Truthful James | p. 36 |
The Society Upon the Stanislaus | p. 39 |
Pilgrims of the Plains | p. 41 |
Longing | p. 46 |
The Captive of the White City | p. 47 |
Song of Creation | p. 52 |
Invocation to the U'wannami (Rain-Makers) | p. 53 |
Song of the Sky Loom | p. 56 |
Song for Girls' Puberty Rites | p. 56 |
Datura Hunting Song | p. 57 |
Wolf Song | p. 58 |
The Death Song of White Antelope | p. 59 |
Prayer to the Black Bear | p. 59 |
Prayer to the Sockeye Salmon | p. 60 |
Healing Prayer to the Salmon-Berry Vines | p. 61 |
Warsong of the Kwakiutl | p. 62 |
War Songs | p. 62 |
Healing Songs | p. 64 |
Ghost Dance Songs | p. 66 |
from The Night Chant | p. 69 |
The Man with the Hoe | p. 75 |
In Death Valley | p. 77 |
The Grass on the Mountain | p. 79 |
Song of a Man About to Die in a Strange Land | p. 80 |
Song of the Maverick | p. 80 |
Cabins | p. 82 |
Poppies of Wickenburg | p. 84 |
Boot Hill | p. 85 |
Spanish Johnny | p. 87 |
Prairie Spring | p. 88 |
Macon Prairie | p. 90 |
Snake Dance | p. 93 |
from "The Song of the Indian Wars" | p. 95 |
The Plainsmen | p. 99 |
Men in New Mexico | p. 102 |
The Listening Macaws | p. 106 |
White Day's Death | p. 107 |
Late Sewing | p. 107 |
For a Broken Needle | p. 108 |
Kit Carson's Last Smoke | p. 109 |
Rock and Hawk | p. 112 |
The Purse-Seine | p. 113 |
The Coast-Road | p. 114 |
Vulture | p. 116 |
from Montana Wives | p. 116 |
The Empire Sofa | p. 118 |
Time of Mountains | p. 119 |
Blue-Stemmed Grass | p. 122 |
A Grandmother Remembers | p. 123 |
Snail Garden | p. 123 |
John Sutter | p. 125 |
To the Holy Spirit | p. 128 |
Cow Boy's Lament | p. 130 |
Educated Feller | p. 131 |
California Trail | p. 133 |
El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez | p. 135 |
Moss-Gathering | p. 138 |
Meditation at Oyster River | p. 138 |
In a Dark Time | p. 141 |
To Robinson Jeffers | p. 142 |
It Was Winter | p. 144 |
Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore | p. 146 |
Weather | p. 147 |
Montana Eclogue | p. 150 |
Allegiances | p. 154 |
from "Letter to an Imaginary Friend" | p. 155 |
What It Could Be | p. 161 |
Settling | p. 163 |
Presence | p. 163 |
Open Secret | p. 164 |
Montana Ranch Abandoned | p. 165 |
What Thou Lovest Well Remains American | p. 167 |
Brief History | p. 169 |
There Are No Such Trees in Alpine, California | p. 170 |
The Eye in the Rock | p. 171 |
from Running Away from Home | p. 173 |
Lost | p. 177 |
Breaking Camp | p. 177 |
Meeting a Bear | p. 178 |
Sunflower Sutra | p. 181 |
Waking in March | p. 183 |
Snails | p. 184 |
from An Atlas of the Difficult World | p. 186 |
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout | p. 191 |
Piute Creek | p. 192 |
I Went Into the Maverick Bar | p. 193 |
from Faces at the First Farmworkers Constitutional Convention | p. 194 |
Sonora for Sale | p. 202 |
Because the Moon Comes | p. 203 |
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee | p. 204 |
The Colors of Night | p. 205 |
from The Donner Party | p. 207 |
crazy horse names his daughter | p. 210 |
crazy horse instructs the young men but in their grief they forget | p. 210 |
the message of crazy horse | p. 211 |
From Our Album | p. 212 |
Concentration Constellation | p. 217 |
Harlem, Montana: Just off the Reservation | p. 219 |
Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat | p. 221 |
Rosebud | p. 222 |
Freeway 280 | p. 225 |
Colorado Blvd | p. 226 |
A Story of How a Wall Stands | p. 228 |
Canyon de Chelly | p. 230 |
Palo Alto: The Marshes | p. 233 |
Spring Rain | p. 237 |
La Migra | p. 239 |
Woodcutting on Lost Mountain | p. 241 |
Behold | p. 249 |
Racehogs | p. 250 |
San Antonio de Padua | p. 251 |
Ice Plant in Bloom | p. 254 |
Indian College Blues | p. 256 |
Bear Fat | p. 258 |
Map | p. 259 |
The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer | p. 261 |
Indian Ruins Along Rio de Flag | p. 265 |
Making a Great Space Small | p. 266 |
Mission Street Manifesto | p. 268 |
To Mt. St. Helens | p. 269 |
Moment | p. 272 |
What Ely Was | p. 273 |
The Planet Krypton | p. 273 |
Western Civilization | p. 275 |
Trespasses | p. 281 |
Silos | p. 282 |
Sonata for the Invisible | p. 283 |
Perhaps the World Ends Here | p. 284 |
Invasions | p. 285 |
The Elements of San Joaquin | p. 288 |
People on Wayward Journeys | p. 293 |
Kitchen Sink | p. 294 |
Resurrections | p. 295 |
How I Got That Name | p. 297 |
Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky | p. 301 |
James Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific Northwest | p. 303 |
The Business of Fancydancing | p. 306 |
Source Notes | p. 309 |
Index of Authors | p. 313 |
Index of Titles and First Lines | p. 315 |
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