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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poetry at its most satirical and courageous. A tremendous book.\"\u0026#151;Seamus Heaney\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few voices in American literature are so honest and daring.\"\u0026#151;Mark Strand\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of our most brilliant poets.\"\u0026#151;Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I feel the primal grain and temper of the genuine here.\"\u0026#151;William Heyen\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A lament, a protest, an inextinguishable song.\"\u0026#151;Sherod Santos\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Among the best and most original poets in America.\"\u0026#151;Stanley Kunitz\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing short of splendid.\"\u0026#151;Robert Nazarene\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The kind of energy found in the poems of William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder.\"\u0026#151;Joseph Bruchac\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese poems tell harsh truths of hopelessness and genocide. The confusion of children whose religion is forbidden; the ironic poverty of a lottery winner; an alternate American history in which Columbus turns and sails away\u0026#151;in deceptively simple language, we hear the protest of survivors. \"'Indian' is not a derogatory word. It's what we call ourselves.\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eAFTER A SERMON AT THE CHURCH OF INFINITE CONFUSION\u003c/B\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eAt ten, Mary Caught-in-Between\u003cBR\u003ecame home from sunday school,\u003cBR\u003etold every animal and bird and fish\u003cBR\u003ethey couldn't talk anymore,\u003cBR\u003etold her drum it couldn't sing anymore,\u003cBR\u003etold her feet they couldn't dance anymore,\u003cBR\u003etold her words they weren't words anymore,\u003cBR\u003etold Raven and Coyote they weren't gods anymore,\u003cBR\u003esaid god was a starving white man\u003cBR\u003ewith long hair and blue eyes and a beard\u003cBR\u003ewho no one loved enough to save\u003cBR\u003ewhen they nailed him to a totem pole.\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eJohn Smelcer \u003c/B\u003ehas written over forty books of poetry and prose. He is a member of the Alaskan Ahtna tribe.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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