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Echoing the muscular rhythms of the heartbeat, the poems in this
stunning collection alternate between contraction and expansion.
Eric Gansworth explores the act of enduring: physically,
historically, and culturally. A member of the Haudenosaunee,
Gansworth expresses the tensions experienced by members of a
marginalized culture struggling to maintain tradition within a much
larger dominant culture.With equal measures of humor, wisdom,
polgnancy, and beauty, Gansworth's poems mine the infinite
varieties of individual and collective loss and recovery. Seventeen
paintings complement his poetry, creating a dialogue between word
and image steeped in the tradition of the Haudenosaunee's mythic
world. ""A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function"" is the most
recent addition to Gansworth's remarkable body of work chronicling
the lives of upstate New York's Indian communities.
"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and
friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of TANTALIZE and RAIN
IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME
Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on
the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball
games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is
white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield,
whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys
connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the
Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his
family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious
Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath.
But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated?
And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he
still be his friend?
Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this
wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of
rock 'n' roll.
Welcome to the Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for
Protection and Reclamation of Indian Images. Expect to find, amid
all the refined cultural observations, academic posturing, and
political maneuvering, an Indian who defies anyone to protect, let
alone reclaim, "her" image. This is Shirley Mounter, a Tuscarora
woman and the chief storyteller among the acerbic, eloquent, and
often hilarious speakers who overflow the pages of this latest
novel by the noted Onondaga writer Eric Gansworth. A lecture on
Indian stereotypes by Shirley's daughter, art historian Annie
Boans, calls forth Shirley's recollections, whose outpourings
deposit us in the turbulent yet restorative waters of modern
Iroquoian reservation life, always flowing and eddying around kin.
Indeed, Shirley's house and land are now, after a long and bitter
fight, forever lost to her in the construction of a water reservoir
that feeds the government's hydroelectric plant. The story of this
battle is the story of Shirley's generation and the faltering
generation that follows--of violent love and losses, of children
turning away only to find themselves forever negotiating the
nuances of identity, of popular culture in jarring juxtaposition
with the sometimes even more incredible realities of Native life.
Weaving a complex narrative illustrated with his own paintings,
Gansworth creates a rich, wry, and multifaceted tapestry of the
intricate twists and turns of coincidence, memories, and stories
that bind Native families together.
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