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The feathered heart
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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

  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. The Eye Shakes
  2. pp. 1-1
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  1. Horse and Cradle
  2. pp. 2-2
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  1. Tiny Warriors
  2. pp. 3-3
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  1. Flies Buzzing
  2. pp. 4-6
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  1. True Sign
  2. pp. 7-7
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  1. Indian Boys
  2. pp. 8-9
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  1. Room Still Full of Death
  2. pp. 10-10
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  1. Father’s Dust
  2. pp. 11-12
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  1. Window Glass
  2. pp. 26-26
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  1. Unshadow
  2. pp. 14-15
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  1. Sky Breathes Sky
  2. pp. 16-17
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  1. Flying With the Wind
  2. pp. 18-19
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  1. Horse Dance
  2. pp. 20-21
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  1. Recognize Stepfather
  2. pp. 22-24
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  1. And Betty Jean
  2. pp. 25-25
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  1. Under Gray Gods
  2. pp. 26-26
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  1. Folded Down
  2. pp. 27-27
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  1. Animal Shadows
  2. pp. 28-28
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  1. Indio
  2. pp. 29-29
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  1. Leads You To Water
  2. pp. 30-32
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  1. The Boy Dances
  2. pp. 33-33
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  1. Angels We
  2. pp. 34-34
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  1. Hands
  2. pp. 35-35
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  1. This Wind
  2. pp. 36-36
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  1. The Flower On
  2. pp. 37-37
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  1. Feather
  2. pp. 38-39
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  1. Wedding
  2. pp. 40-40
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  1. Amber On Opal
  2. pp. 41-42
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  1. Rain Rain
  2. pp. 43-43
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  1. Chippewa Hitch Hike
  2. pp. 44-45
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  1. Arrow, Humming
  2. pp. 46-47
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  1. Motherdrum
  2. pp. 48-49
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  1. Ten Thousand Thousand Bones
  2. pp. 50-53
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  1. Brother River Dreams
  2. pp. 54-55
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  1. Cyrus Calls For His Pony
  2. pp. 56-56
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  1. Last Drink
  2. pp. 57-58
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  1. Half Blood
  2. pp. 59-59
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  1. Song for the Endless Others
  2. pp. 60-61
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  1. The Poets Coming
  2. pp. 62-62
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  1. Growler
  2. pp. 63-63
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  1. Winter
  2. pp. 64-64
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  1. Foreign Shore
  2. pp. 65-69
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