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- Redoubted: Poems by
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
- Series: Makwa Enewed
summary
R. Vincent Moniz, Jr., records the life and times of a mostly uneducated, economically disadvantaged, literary award-winning urban Indian. Much of his work reflects the people and stories from a neighborhood with the moniker Cockroach while simultaneously depicting contemporary issues of Native America. Poems in this collection are filled with a dreaded fire of wit and cynicism given to him by the Oglala and NuuÉtaare peoples who helped to raise him. With a great deal of bathos, he glides and slides seamlessly from silly to sorrow without effort. His formidable verse irradiates and acknowledges the lives of an in-between people who are too urban for the reservation and too indigenous for American culture, while he himself navigates multitudes, including his place within nerd/pop culture, which widens the scope of his writing. This collection mirrors a subculture that is being either hustled or altogether overlooked, and does so honestly without filter or worry. Moniz’s poetic genetics are a blend of orators that came before him and a new wave of emerging Indigenous American voices. The reader can see these narratives twist and turn to the heartbeat he writes them in.
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-2
- It All Just Fades Away
- pp. 4-5
- Bison Heart
- pp. 6-8
- In The Last Village’s Gym
- pp. 14-15
- The First Rule
- pp. 16-17
- Seceded Urban Lands
- pp. 18-19
- Benson Formation
- pp. 20-21
- Who Is Coyote?
- pp. 22-23
- Wished for a Year of It
- pp. 26-27
- The Wind of This Way
- p. 28
- Heard Your Buffalo on The Ave.
- pp. 29-30
- Chubby Shoulders
- pp. 31-32
- Word Medicine
- p. 36
- When Fire Replaced Their Eyes
- pp. 37-39
- Upper Seward
- pp. 40-41
- SKINS! IN! SPACE!
- pp. 43-44
- If I Was a Chairman
- p. 46
- A History Nicknamed Cockroach
- pp. 48-49
- Braided and Unbranded
- pp. 50-51
- Headed Out
- p. 54
- All Systems Nominal
- p. 55
- House and a Horse
- pp. 56-57
- High Plains Drifter Pugilism
- pp. 58-59
- Duluth/Superior
- pp. 68-70
- Summer Solstice and Aboriginal Day
- pp. 71-72
- Crossroads
- p. 73
- How to Travel Home
- p. 74
- Oceans of Time
- pp. 75-76
- Bannock Erotic
- p. 78
- Something-est
- pp. 80-81
- For My Valentine, on Our 8th Year
- pp. 85-87
- Time Travel
- p. 94
- Head Cold Reaction
- p. 96
- The Sweet Science of Habitat
- pp. 99-100
- The Bear Nails Are Coming in Different
- pp. 103-104
- Get Back Home
- p. 105
- Lost, She Moved
- p. 106
- Indian Jesus
- pp. 107-109
- The Old Age Home of Stereotypes
- pp. 110-111
- Man of Wood’s Lodge
- p. 114
- New Migration Ritual
- pp. 115-117
- The Power of White
- pp. 118-119
- Fast Horse
- pp. 120-121
- Pollen Takers’ Return
- pp. 124-125
- BiG Word Mom Lets Me Tag Along
- pp. 128-130
- Lamb Hearts
- pp. 131-132
- 60 Seconds That Never Was
- pp. 133-134
- Star Chart
- pp. 135-136
- Fata Morgana
- pp. 137-138
- The Sacred Convergence
- p. 139
- [Day in Sun]
- p. 140
- Atewaye Ki (My Father)
- p. 141
- Two Extra Arms and Legs
- pp. 144-145
- Savage Something
- p. 146
- A Poem for Mr. J
- p. 151
- Death of Steel and Stone
- p. 154
- Small Circles
- pp. 159-160
- [Hollow Bones]
- p. 161
- On a Lake Named Warm Precious Hands
- pp. 164-165
- They Leap out into Irradiated Brilliance
- pp. 166-167
- Visiting Hours
- p. 170
- Earth-Hued Memory of Rest Lost in Song
- pp. 171-173
- Because Every Day I Miss You, Madly
- pp. 174-175
- Learning to Call Myself Home
- pp. 176-177
- In an Old and Good Way
- pp. 178-179
- On a Bridge No One Walks on for Help
- pp. 180-181
- Rise Against Ebb and Flow
- pp. 182-184
- Still I Rise
- p. 185
Additional Information
ISBN
9781938065088
Related ISBN(s)
9781938065071, 9781938065095, 9781938065101
MARC Record
OCLC
1046675471
Pages
197
Launched on MUSE
2018-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018