Poetry of the American West

by Deming, Alison H.

ISBN13: 9780231103879

ISBN10: 0231103875

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 1999-05-01

Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr

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Preface: What the Land Has Inspired
Acknowledgments
Flower Songs	p. 1
Song for the Festival of Tlaloc, the Rain God	p. 3
My Friends	p. 5
Elegy	p. 7
from History of New Mexico	p. 9
On the Civilization of the Western Aboriginal Country	p. 13
The Prairies	p. 16
Song of the Desert	p. 21
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	p. 24
The Prairie-Grass Dividing	p. 30
Night on the Prairies	p. 30
Facing West from California's Shores	p. 31
A Cherokee Love Song	p. 33
The Stolen White Girl	p. 34
Plain Language from Truthful James	p. 36
The Society Upon the Stanislaus	p. 39
Pilgrims of the Plains	p. 41
Longing	p. 46
The Captive of the White City	p. 47
Song of Creation	p. 52
Invocation to the U'wannami (Rain-Makers)	p. 53
Song of the Sky Loom	p. 56
Song for Girls' Puberty Rites	p. 56
Datura Hunting Song	p. 57
Wolf Song	p. 58
The Death Song of White Antelope	p. 59
Prayer to the Black Bear	p. 59
Prayer to the Sockeye Salmon	p. 60
Healing Prayer to the Salmon-Berry Vines	p. 61
Warsong of the Kwakiutl	p. 62
War Songs	p. 62
Healing Songs	p. 64
Ghost Dance Songs	p. 66
from The Night Chant	p. 69
The Man with the Hoe	p. 75
In Death Valley	p. 77
The Grass on the Mountain	p. 79
Song of a Man About to Die in a Strange Land	p. 80
Song of the Maverick	p. 80
Cabins	p. 82
Poppies of Wickenburg	p. 84
Boot Hill	p. 85
Spanish Johnny	p. 87
Prairie Spring	p. 88
Macon Prairie	p. 90
Snake Dance	p. 93
from "The Song of the Indian Wars"	p. 95
The Plainsmen	p. 99
Men in New Mexico	p. 102
The Listening Macaws	p. 106
White Day's Death	p. 107
Late Sewing	p. 107
For a Broken Needle	p. 108
Kit Carson's Last Smoke	p. 109
Rock and Hawk	p. 112
The Purse-Seine	p. 113
The Coast-Road	p. 114
Vulture	p. 116
from Montana Wives	p. 116
The Empire Sofa	p. 118
Time of Mountains	p. 119
Blue-Stemmed Grass	p. 122
A Grandmother Remembers	p. 123
Snail Garden	p. 123
John Sutter	p. 125
To the Holy Spirit	p. 128
Cow Boy's Lament	p. 130
Educated Feller	p. 131
California Trail	p. 133
El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez	p. 135
Moss-Gathering	p. 138
Meditation at Oyster River	p. 138
In a Dark Time	p. 141
To Robinson Jeffers	p. 142
It Was Winter	p. 144
Bison Crossing Near Mt. Rushmore	p. 146
Weather	p. 147
Montana Eclogue	p. 150
Allegiances	p. 154
from "Letter to an Imaginary Friend"	p. 155
What It Could Be	p. 161
Settling	p. 163
Presence	p. 163
Open Secret	p. 164
Montana Ranch Abandoned	p. 165
What Thou Lovest Well Remains American	p. 167
Brief History	p. 169
There Are No Such Trees in Alpine, California	p. 170
The Eye in the Rock	p. 171
from Running Away from Home	p. 173
Lost	p. 177
Breaking Camp	p. 177
Meeting a Bear	p. 178
Sunflower Sutra	p. 181
Waking in March	p. 183
Snails	p. 184
from An Atlas of the Difficult World	p. 186
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout	p. 191
Piute Creek	p. 192
I Went Into the Maverick Bar	p. 193
from Faces at the First Farmworkers Constitutional Convention	p. 194
Sonora for Sale	p. 202
Because the Moon Comes	p. 203
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee	p. 204
The Colors of Night	p. 205
from The Donner Party	p. 207
crazy horse names his daughter	p. 210
crazy horse instructs the young men but in their grief they forget	p. 210
the message of crazy horse	p. 211
From Our Album	p. 212
Concentration Constellation	p. 217
Harlem, Montana: Just off the Reservation	p. 219
Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat	p. 221
Rosebud	p. 222
Freeway 280	p. 225
Colorado Blvd	p. 226
A Story of How a Wall Stands	p. 228
Canyon de Chelly	p. 230
Palo Alto: The Marshes	p. 233
Spring Rain	p. 237
La Migra	p. 239
Woodcutting on Lost Mountain	p. 241
Behold	p. 249
Racehogs	p. 250
San Antonio de Padua	p. 251
Ice Plant in Bloom	p. 254
Indian College Blues	p. 256
Bear Fat	p. 258
Map	p. 259
The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer	p. 261
Indian Ruins Along Rio de Flag	p. 265
Making a Great Space Small	p. 266
Mission Street Manifesto	p. 268
To Mt. St. Helens	p. 269
Moment	p. 272
What Ely Was	p. 273
The Planet Krypton	p. 273
Western Civilization	p. 275
Trespasses	p. 281
Silos	p. 282
Sonata for the Invisible	p. 283
Perhaps the World Ends Here	p. 284
Invasions	p. 285
The Elements of San Joaquin	p. 288
People on Wayward Journeys	p. 293
Kitchen Sink	p. 294
Resurrections	p. 295
How I Got That Name	p. 297
Wheatfield Under Clouded Sky	p. 301
James Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific Northwest	p. 303
The Business of Fancydancing	p. 306
Source Notes	p. 309
Index of Authors	p. 313
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 315
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