I Swallow Turquoise for Courage: Volume 61 (Sun Tracks) - Softcover

John, Hershman R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816525927 ISBN 13: 9780816525928

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 2007

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Book by John Hershman R

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"These poems are great. I am impressed--more than that, enchanted--by this new voice. Content and context work together in a startling collection. A trip worth the taking." "Hershman John's new collection of poetry, I Swallow Turquoise for Courage, is located in a whole other world, on a whole other plane of existence that is not glassy, painted, or stunning but ordinary, wretched, and stunning. Electric with the raised speeches, here, are the long cycles with the enormity or totality of the night desert or simple children at a badly lit supper. This book has great sweetness, strength, and passages that are sacred." "John's vivid and descriptive language distinguishes him from his many lesser peers." --Tucson Weekly "Hershman John's courage, sure grounding in his world, and formal and linguistic skill make this an impressive first book." --Studies in American Indian Literature John s vivid and descriptive language distinguishes him from his many lesser peers. Tucson Weekly Hershman John s courage, sure grounding in his world, and formal and linguistic skill make this an impressive first book. Studies in American Indian Literature"

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A k?ididaa? jini. The stories begin. In poems that exude the warmth of an afternoon in the southwestern sun, Hershman John draws readers into a world both familiar and utterly new. Raised on a reservation and in boarding schools, then educated at a state university, John writes as a contemporary Navajo poet. His is a new voiceone that understands life on both sides of the canyon that divides, but does not completely separate, the Dine people from their neighbors who live outside the reservation. His poetry draws freely from tribal myths and legends, and like its creator, it lives outside the reservation too. Perhaps that is why they seem so unspoiled, so sparkling. They are like gemstones that we have never seen. And we are dazzled. With their recurring images of sheep, coyotes, and crows, nd an ever-present Navajo grandmother these poems carry echoes of an ancient time that seems to exist in parallel with our own. The people who live in them bear, as if woven strand by strand into their souls, the culture and traditions of the Glittering World. Although these poems are lush with imagery of sunbaked lands, they are never sentimental. Throughout this collection, the poet's voice is confident, assured, and engaged with life in a messy world. It is a world in which animated spirits dwell comfortably with modern machinery, where the spiritual resides with the all-too-human. This is a welcoming universe. It invites us to enter, to linger, to savor, and to learn.

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• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0816525927
• ISBN 13: 9780816525928
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96