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America the Beautiful: Last Poems

America the Beautiful: Last Poems

by Paula Gunn Allen
America the Beautiful: Last Poems

America the Beautiful: Last Poems

by Paula Gunn Allen

Overview

These poems, written in the last decade of Paula Gunn Allen's life and the first years of the new century, capture the variety, ingenuity, and complexity of this beloved and influential Native American critic and poet. In the lexicon of Paula Gunn Allen, what makes America beautiful may come as a surprise: its horrors confront its hopefulness; its absurdities challenge its promise. A powerful, sustained lyrical and narrative sequence written in the midst of political and personal catastrophe (the second U.S. invasion of Iraq, a disastrous home fire, her own battle with lung cancer), Allen's last book of poems is at once a bonfire made up of the ruins of civilization, a call for one more effort to set things right, and a gift to us all from this fertile and generous writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780981669359
Publisher: West End Press
Publication date: 10/16/2010
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Scots/Lebanese poet, philosopher, scholar, and teacher, was born in Cubero, New Mexico, in 1939. She received her doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 1976; her dissertation evolved into a major work of cultural criticism, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Two volumes of her poetry, Skins and Bones and Life Is a Fatal Disease, were published by West End Press. She completed the manuscript for this book a week before her death on May 29, 2008 in Fort Bragg, California.

Table of Contents

To the Reader

America the Beautiful Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark

Apache WarriorApache Troop Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 2

America the Beautiful I Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 6

America the Beautiful II Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 8

America the Beautiful III Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 9

America the Beautiful IV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 10

America the Beautiful V Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 12

America the Beautiful VI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 14

America the Beautiful VII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 15

America the Beautiful VIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 17

America the Beautiful IX Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 19

America the Beautiful X Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 20

America the Beautiful XI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 22

America the Beautiful XII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 24

America the Beautiful XIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 25

America the Beautiful XIV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 26

America the Beautiful XV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 29

America the Beautiful XVI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 34

America the Beautiful XVII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 35

America the Beautiful XVIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 36

America the Beautiful XIX Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 38

America the Beautiful XX Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 40

America the Beautiful XXI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 42

America the Beautiful XXII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 43

America the Beautiful XXIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 44

America the Beautiful XXIV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 45

America the Beautiful XXV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 46

America the Beautiful XXVI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 48

America the Beautiful XXVII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 50

America the Beautiful XXVIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 51

America the Beautiful XXIX Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 52

America the Beautiful XXX Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 53

America the Beautiful XXXI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 54

America the Beautiful XXXII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 55

America the Beautiful XXXIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 56

America the Beautiful XXXIV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 57

America the Beautiful XXXV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 59

America the Beautiful XXXVI Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 60

America the Beautiful XXXVII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 61

America the Beautiful XXXVIII Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 62

There is Another Shore Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark

The Kingdom of Nye Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 66

Three Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 68

Another Shore Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 69

Sin Verguenza Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 71

Wayward Girl's Lament Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 74

Skyscape Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 75

Values Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 76

Still Crazy Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 78

Self Portrait and a Wish Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 80

Dawn Sneaks Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 81

I Understand When I Watch TV Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 83

coyote rhymester on the lam Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 84

All the Same Beans Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 86

Which Way's Up, Doc? Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 88

Borrachitarme Voy Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 90

SE FUE (He Left [Himself]) Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 91

Minding the Gap Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 92

Treasured Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 94

Love Poem Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 95

How Near, How Far Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 97

A Note on the Text Patricia Clark Smith Smith, Patricia Clark 99

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