Native Writers Circle Of The Americas First Book Award For Poetry
These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire
gather many nations of the world, some angry, some at peace. The
nations' emissaries accept invitations to stand together at the
Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store and turn rhythmically to the
four cardinal directions, so that the earth can regain its balance.
Facing East, the ambassadors see Flags of Mercy hanging over New
York City and Nagasaki, then encounter and embrace a
manic-depressive Native Hawaiian-Cherokee medicine man in Oklahoma
City. Traveling closer to the moon and stars they fly with a
dreamer in the Garden of the Bumblebees, and they listen in
Weleetka, Oklahoma, to the last two living speakers of Yuchi.
Turning North, the councilors ice skate with post-Vietnam
revolutionaries on glacier lakes in Idaho. They chase grouse in
snow two feet deep, ponder dormancy in hyphenated winters and
university libraries, and learn the best way to build a fall fire.
Facing West, they lie on cool, creek bed vulvas of earth in
sweltering Great Plains summer, navigate a wilderness river in
canoes, and kiss a lover at dawn in the Chihuahan desert. Finally,
turning in the divine direction South, the emissaries hear The
Story of The Seeds, a journey back to 1540, to the conquest of
Mabila by De Soto. In a stream of survival, they emigrate with
Choctaws on trails of tears from Mississippi to Oklahoma, before
sharing big ripe melons in the delta of the Vegetable River. They
finish their revolution facing east again, just before dawn.
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