Absentee Indians & Other Poems
Publication Year: 2012
Absentee Indians and Other Poems evokes personal yet universal experiences of the places that Native Americans call home, their family and national histories, and the emotional forces that help forge Native American identities. These are poems of exile, loss, and the celebration of that which remains. Anchored in the physical landscape, Blaeser’s poetry finds the sacred in those ordinary actions that bind a community together. As Blaeser turns to the mysterious passage from sleeping to wakefulness, or from nature to spirit, she reveals not merely the movement from one age or place to another, but the movement from experience to vision.
Published by: Michigan State University Press
Contents
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pp. 8-9
Acknowledgements
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pp. 10-11
Preface
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pp. 12-13
Absentee Indians
Absentee Indians
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pp. 16-17
Twelve Steps to Ward off Homesickness
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pp. 18-19
Recite the Names of All the Suicided Indians
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pp. 20-22
This Guy Back Home
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p. 23-23
The Last Fish House
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pp. 24-31
Passing Time
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pp. 32-37
Studies in Migration
Of Landscape and Narrative
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pp. 40-42
Studies in Migration
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p. 43-43
Tracks and Traces
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p. 44-44
Lines from an Autumn Litany
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pp. 45-46
What the Sun Has Left of Amber
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pp. 47-48
Imprints in Blackfeet Country
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p. 49-49
A Wash
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p. 50-50
Students of Scat
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pp. 51-52
A Sequel
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p. 53-53
zen for traveling bards
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p. 54-54
Haiku Seasons
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pp. 55-57
Evolutions
March 1995: Seeking Remission
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p. 60-60
March 1998: Seeking Solace
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pp. 61-62
Another Midnight Flute
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pp. 63-64
Kitchen Voices
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pp. 65-68
Letting Go
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pp. 69-73
Evolutions
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pp. 74-76
your old lost loves
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pp. 77-78
Passing St. Kilian's
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p. 79-79
Motherbirth
Fetal Disposition
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pp. 82-83
motherbirth
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pp. 84-86
Baby Pantoum
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pp. 87-88
fragments from a mother's journal
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pp. 89-90
Don't Burst the Bubble
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p. 91-91
Up-Ducky-Down
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pp. 92-93
Beyond Measure
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pp. 94-95
From Memory's Daybook
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p. 96-96
This Song
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p. 97-97
From One Half Mad Writer to Another
Hat Tricks
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pp. 100-101
letter, from one half mad writer to another
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pp. 102-103
Where Vizenor Soaked His Feet
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pp. 104-105
Cerca de Aquî
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p. 106-106
Bilingual
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pp. 107-108
And Still You Refused to be a Shaman
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pp. 109-110
Night Tremors
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pp. 111-113
lament
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pp. 114-117
Are you sure Hank done it this way?
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pp. 118-121
Those Things That Come To You At Night
Anza Borrego, 1995
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pp. 124-126
In the Tradition of the Peacemakers
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pp. 127-128
Matrix
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pp. 129-130
Of My Affections
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pp. 131-132
Those Things That Come to You at Night
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pp. 133-135
Meeting Place
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pp. 136-139
Epilogue
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pp. 140-141
Y2K Indian
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pp. 142-145
E-ISBN-13: 9781609170080
Print-ISBN-13: 9780870136078
Publication Year: 2012
