The Woman Who Married a Bear: Poems

by Tiffany Midge

Overview

Winner of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry, Tiffany Midge deftly weaves Plains Indian myths into the present day and seeks to define love, the nature of desire, and identity in the twenty-first century. The book includes a series of poems, each titled "Considering Wakantanka," that connect the themes throughout the book. The Woman Who Married a Bear showcases the wholly individual voice of a talented poet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826356529
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Series:	Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	904,080
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Tiffany Midge is also the author of Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed. Her poetry has been widely published. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and grew up in the Pacific Northwest.

Table of Contents

The Woman Who Married a Bear 1

The Foolish Girls 5

Considering Wakantanka #1 6

A Song for Conjuring Shelter 7

Imagining Yes 8

Night Caller 9

In Praise of Our Humble Kingdom 10

A Love Story 11

Identifying the Beast 12

The Cut 14

Considering Wakantanka #2 15

The Draw 16

Teeth in the Wrong Places 17

Teton Valley 23

Considering Wakantanka #3 24

An Interior of Mythical Territory I Seek to Believe 25

Desire: An Inventory 27

Trigger Warning: An Aubade 29

Considering Wakantanka #4 30

Funeral for a Sioux Elder 31

Distress 33

The Boy with No Eyes 35

Soothe 36

Mayflower 37

Considering Wakantanka #5 38

Antiquing with Indians 41

Code Name Geronimo 43

(Dis)beliefs Suspended 44

Considering Wakantanka #6 45

Abstraction 46

After Viewing the Holocaust Museum's Room of Shoes and a Gallery of Plains' Indian Moccasins: Washington, DC 47

Considering Wakantanka #7 49

A Postcolonial Irony 50

What Is the Sound of America? 52

Spring Valley Reservoir 54

Her Kind of Horses 56

The Night Horse 57

For the Lummi Girl Who Found Her Magic in Horses 59

Considering Wakantanka #8 60

Hinhan 61

Planting Tulips the First Autumn after Your Death 62

Considering Wakantanka #9 63

Scenes from a Naturalist's Sketchbook 64

Famine 65

Whatcom Creek 66

Considering Wakantanka #10 67

Acknowledgments 69

Editorial Reviews

"In this ranging, courageous collection, Tiffany Midge draws us deep into the world of her people, the Plains Indians, with a contemporary acuity that transcends both history and time."
—Kenyon Review

"The Woman Who Married a Bear is a book that works both with and against our expectations. . . . These poems quietly but profoundly call us to listen and observe."
—Fourth & Sycamore

"Here, in a gorgeous unraveling of image and musicality, poems transform before our very eyes from song to wit to myth to prayer."
—Lee Ann Roripaugh, author of On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year

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