Research Catalog

Title

Shedding skins : four Sioux poets / Trevino L. Brings Plenty, Steve Pacheco, Joel Waters, Luke Warm Water ; edited by Adrian C. Louis.

Publication

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brings Plenty, Trevino L.
• Pacheco, Steve.
• Waters, Joel.
• Warm Water, Luke.
• Louis, Adrian C.

Description

xi, 124 pages : portraits; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American Indian studies series

Uniform Title

American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)

Subjects

• Indians of North America > Poetry
• Dakota Indians > Poetry
• American poetry > Indian authors

Contents

Introduction / Adrian C. Louis -- Trevino L. Brings Plenty -- Here We Go Again -- Ghost Shirt Litany -- How to Be an Indian Male in the Early 21st Century -- To Rid the Egg -- The Question -- No Eyes -- To Find the Indian Wisdom -- Park Sandwich -- Building Rooms to Sell Dreams -- Part Gravel, Part Water, All Indian -- Life Money -- Lakota Language Lesson with Benjamin -- Meals -- Dead Whistle -- Crazy Horse Nightmares -- She Is Now a Poem -- It Is Called a Chow Line -- Steve Pacheco -- History -- City Elegy for a Nameless Skin -- Uncle -- Indian Country -- Veteran's Day -- Lonesome Night -- Rocks -- Waiting for the Barbarians -- Sugar Bowl -- Our Life -- Arrival Song -- But Tonight I Praise It -- Prairie Prayer -- The Lower Sioux Rez: Three Scenes -- Wacipi -- Homeland -- Her Belly -- Star Quilt -- On the Anniversary of Her Wake -- First of the Month -- Eden Prairie, Minnesota -- Brothers -- Love Poem -- Joel Waters -- Devil's Playground -- The Outhouse -- Picking Potatoes -- The Linoleum Heart -- Wannabe -- Spirits Underneath an Artificial Blue Sky -- Rez Cars Crash -- Into the Turtle's Cracks -- Cherry -- The Cigarette Burns -- Luke Warm Water -- Art of Huffing Paint -- Blip Blip -- Chief Bigfoot Death Pose and the Pawn Shop Receipt -- Indian Health Service Clinic -- Welfare Bliss -- Martin, South Dakota Needed a Martini Waitress -- Ishi's Hiding Place -- John Wayne's Bullet -- Pizza Poem -- The Jesus of Pine Ridge -- Reservation Casino (Fetterman's Revenge) -- This Is What It Means to Say San Diego, California -- Rapid City Wino Lament -- On Indian Time.

ISBN

• 9780870138232 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0870138235 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007038515
• 40015286119

OCLC

• 173182842
• ocn173182842
• SCSB-5398686

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries