Woven Stone
A Literature, Poetry book. Great collection. Honest, solid and brutal.
"What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language," says Simon Ortiz. Widely regarded as one of the country's most important Native American poets, Ortiz has led a thirty-year career marked by a fascination with language—and by a love of his people. This omnibus of three previous works offers old and new readers an appreciation of the fruits of his dedication.Going for the Rain (1976) expresses closeness to a specific Native American way of life and its philosophy and is structured in the narrative form of a journey on the road of life. A Good Journey (1977), an evocation of Ortiz's constant awareness of his heritage, draws on the oral tradition of his Pueblo culture. Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (1980)—revised for this volume—has its origins in his work as a laborer in the uranium industry and is intended as a political observation and statement...
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- Pages: 367 pages
- ISBN: 9780816513307 / 816513309
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Great collection. Honest, solid and brutal. Simon Ortiz uses the tradition of storyteller to record cultural themes running through the rich oral tradition of the Native American pueblos. As many of the oral stories are songs and chants, they lend themselves readily to poetry. Woven Stone combines 3 previous colllections of poetry and essays. Ortiz writes the heritage of his... Storytelling from the myths and legends of the Acoma oral tradition, full of wisdome and continuing relevance for the present era, side by side with chronicles of the struggles of ordinary American-Indian people to defend themselves and their land against the ravages of the U.S. state and multinational corporations.
