Description
Banning, California: Malki Museum Press, Published 1980. Paperback, xvi, 129 pp.; 23 cm; illustrated throughout by the author with black-and-white line drawings.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated paperback covers featuring a full-color illustration by Wendy Rose on the front with black title lettering; rear cover with black-and-white author photograph by Michael J. Elderman, quoted blurb from N. Scott Momaday's preface, and the Malki Museum Press imprint on the Morongo Indian Reservation. Mild shelf wear to cover edges and a few faint handling marks to the rear panel. Binding tight; interior pages bright and clean with no markings. Illustrated by the author with line drawings, including a frontispiece illustration and part-opening plates. Poems by Wendy Rose, of Miwok and Hopi ancestry, a poet and visual artist who illustrates her own book. The seven-part collection moves from elegies for desecrated burial grounds and satires of academic life through reflections on ancestry, landscape, and Hopi homecoming. At time of publication Rose was program coordinator of American Indian Studies at Fresno City College; her prior collections included The Halfbreed Chronicles and What Happened When the Hopi Hit New York. N. Scott Momaday's introduction describes the book as "supremely native . . . a celebration." Contents: Frontispoem: Lost copper; Part one. Protecting the burial grounds; Part two. Academic squaw: Reports to the world from the ivory tower; Part three. Learning to understand darkness; Part four. Four poems especially for Ron Tanaka; Part five. And some others; Part six. Hopi overlay: Turquoise words going home; Part seven. Builder Kachina: Home-going; Epilog.