Poetry
152 Pages, .................. ISBN: 0-910055-45-9
Paper: $15.95
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This generous collection of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's poems will undoubtedly be as controversial as her previous book of essays, Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner; but her bold satires and eloquent lyrics are hardly likely to be misunderstood. In this work, without casting aside her role as a foremost scholar of Indian history and current cultural affairs (she is editor of the eminent Wicazo Sa Review), Cook-Lynn joyfully and courageously embraces the people and the world she knows and loves. She scolds their detractors, scarifies their enemies, sings and dances with them, loves them as much for their sins as for their virtues.
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| Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a teacher, essayist, fiction writer and poet. A member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, she was born on the reservation at Fort Thompson, South Dakota, in 1930. From 1971 until 1991 she taught English and Native American Studies at Eastern Washington University, before returning to live in South Dakota and write full-time. She is also the author of The Power of Horses, From the River's Edge, and most recently, co-written with Mario Gonzalez, The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. |
