In this Book
- The Feathered Heart
- 1998
- Book
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
summary
This revised and expanded edition of The Feathered Heart, Mark Turcotte's celebrated collection of Native American poetry, brings traditional oral culture to print. Torn, painful, vibrant, and full of hope, his poetry weaves together the multilayered and textured fabric of contemporary Native American urban and rural existence. Appropriately, each poem in The Feathered Heart possesses a deeply lyrical quality. Raw emotion echoes in Turcotte's voice, in his verse, in the things he sees. "Ten Thousand Thousand Bones," for example, "a poem about the desecration of Native American burial sites and objects by archeologists," is dedicated "to an ancient woman taken from the Earth near New Lenox, Illinois in the winter 1993/94."
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xii
- The Eye Shakes
- p. 1
- Horse and Cradle
- p. 2
- Tiny Warriors
- p. 3
- Flies Buzzing
- pp. 4-6
- Indian Boys
- pp. 8-9
- Father’s Dust
- pp. 11-12
- Window Glass
- p. 26
- Sky Breathes Sky
- pp. 16-17
- Flying With the Wind
- pp. 18-19
- Horse Dance
- pp. 20-21
- Recognize Stepfather
- pp. 22-24
- And Betty Jean
- p. 25
- Under Gray Gods
- p. 26
- Folded Down
- p. 27
- Animal Shadows
- p. 28
- Leads You To Water
- pp. 30-32
- The Boy Dances
- p. 33
- The Flower On
- p. 37
- Amber On Opal
- pp. 41-42
- Chippewa Hitch Hike
- pp. 44-45
- Arrow, Humming
- pp. 46-47
- Motherdrum
- pp. 48-49
- Ten Thousand Thousand Bones
- pp. 50-53
- Brother River Dreams
- pp. 54-55
- Last Drink
- pp. 57-58
- Half Blood
- p. 59
- Song for the Endless Others
- pp. 60-61
- The Poets Coming
- p. 62
- Foreign Shore
- pp. 65-69
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870139628
Related ISBN(s)
9780870134821, 9781628952148, 9781628962147
MARC Record
OCLC
774285372
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1998