Winning the Dust BowlUniversity of Arizona Press, 2001 - 212 oldal Bootleggers and bankrobbers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Proctors and punters at Oxford. Activists and agitators of the American Indian Movement. Carter Revard has known them all, and in this book-- a memoir in prose and poetry-- he interweaves the many threads of his life as only a gifted writer can. Winning the Dust Bowl traces Revard's development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet. It recounts his search for a personal and poetic voice, his struggle to keep and expand it, and his attempt to find ways of reconciling the disparate influences of his life. In these pages, readers will find poems both new and familiar: poems of family and home, of loss and survival. In linking-- what he calls "cocooning"-- essays, Revard shares what he has noticed about how poems come into being, how changes in style arise from changes in life, and how language can be used to deal with one's relationship to the world. He also includes stories of Poncas and Osages, powwow stories and Oxford fables, and a gallery of photographs that capture images of his past. Revard has crafted a book about poetry and authorship, about American history and culture. Lyrical in one breath and stingingly political in the next, he calls on his mastery of language to show us the undying connection between literature and life. |
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Carter Revard. prison to the funeral and who would be escorting him back - the deputies being from two other tribes , which Aunt Jewell has named for me but which I forget . In that picture , the deputies wear Stetson hats and look with ...
Carter Revard. country ) next to a railroad , with a store , a bank , and maybe at that time actually a movie , plus a few hundred people . And when Carter and his buddy came out of the bank with the loot , they would be shot dead : that ...
Carter Revard. was the summer of 1936 , and we were out at Buck Creek , in a terribly dry year , and Uncle Carter , and Grandpa , and our step- father Addison , and Mom , always seemed to have plenty to do . Grandpa and the uncles had ...
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FINDING A VOICE | 3 |
WHITE EAGLE EARLY | 11 |
BUCK CREEK TO OXFORD BY BIRCH CANOE | 19 |
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