Research Catalog

Title

From the belly of my beauty : poems / by Esther G. Belin.

Author

Belin, Esther G.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999.

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Details

Description

viii, 85 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

A collection of poems by an urban Indian from California. In From the Stench of My Belly, she writes: "I'm sure when you were young / you saw Indians on TV / YOU SAW ME ON TV: / Indian princess / rotund squaw / blood-thirsty brave /stoic chief / ungrateful drunk."

Series Statement

Sun tracks ; v. 38

Uniform Title

Sun tracks v. 38.

Subjects

• Poésie
• Poetry
• poetry
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > Poetry
• Navajo Indians > Poetry
• Indian women > California > Los Angeles > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Blues-ing on the Brown Vibe -- He Changed the Whirl in My Palm -- Directional Memory -- Jenny Holzer Inspiration -- On Relocation -- Check One -- Bringing Hannah Home -- March 11, 1995 -- Ruthie Rae, My Kid -- Case Study #311,990 -- Indian Mom -- Euro-American Womanhood Ceremony -- Asdz'aan To'dichi'nii -- Ruby Awakens -- Ruby's Summer Fruit -- Ruby Roast -- Ruby in the Sky -- How Ruby Saves Laughter -- Disco Danny AKA Ruby's Dance Partner -- Ruby at Bat -- Ruby Stew -- How Art Opens Ruby's Eye -- Ruby's Bird Cage -- Ruby Hikes -- Ruby in Me #1 -- Ruby in Me #2 -- Ruby's Answer -- Ruby's Welfare -- Ruby and Child -- Falling Stars -- Dry Spell -- To Imagine Her Whole, Once More -- 949 Agua Fria -- Sending the Letter Never Sent -- For Miss Celine When She Smokes -- Night Travel -- 2 + 2 = Too Much -- "49" in a Mountain Town -- On Telly Biliizh -- When Roots Are Exposed -- To the Word "Indian" -- In the Cycle of the Whirl.

ISBN

0816519544 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^99006335^

OCLC

• 41137473
• SCSB-10836498

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library