Claiming Breath

by Diane Glancy

Overview

Like poets of legend, Diane Glancy has spent much of her life on the road. For years she supported her family by driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools. Claiming Breath is an account of one of those years, what Glancy calls "a winter count of sorts, a calendar, a diary of personal matters . . . and a final acceptance of the broken past. . . . It's a year that covers more than a year."

Diane Glancy teaches creative writing and Native American literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her collections of poetry, Iron Woman, and of short fiction, Trigger Dance, have also won major prizes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803270664
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	05/01/1996
Series:	North American Indian Prose Award
Pages:	119
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Diane Glancy teaches creative writing and Native American literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her collections of poetry, Iron Woman, and of short fiction, Trigger Dance, have also won major prizes.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a rich, satisfying book, full of wisdom."—Choice

Choice

"An important addition to the literature of white-Indian cultural interrelationships."—World Literature Today

World Literature Today

"Glancy is a major voice in Native America today. Claiming Breath is a refreshingly honest depiction of contemporary life and an important step in American Indian literature. Non-Indian readers can learn much from Glancy’s text, which presents an Indian worldview complete in its holistic complexity and integrity."—American Indian Culture and Research Journal

American Indian Culture and Research Journal