Spirit matters : white clay, red exits, distant others / poems by Gordon Henry.
"In parcels and particles, letters, images, repetitive themes, rhythms and sounds, 'Spirit Matters' invites views into shadow spheres, of creative memory, reinvention of storied characters and place, as reminders of how poetry might turn longing, back to the very sound memory makes as we honor the i...
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| Language: | English |
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Duluth, Minnesota :
Holy Cow! Press,
2022.
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MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection |
| Physical Description: | 161 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- As If White Clay: Prologue ; Untitled ; Relative X: A White Clay Tabernacle of Grief ; Abstract on Reminders ; Sighted In- Another Eye of Memory, Fall Again ; With a Rifle, a Flask ; The Return of White Clay Brothers ; From the Book of Zahquod, Letter Niizh ; Dear Venus Zhaawanigiizhik ; Dear Uncle X ; Venus Zhaawanigiizhik (One of the Triplet Aunts) ; Through the Refuge ; Departure: A White Clay Soldier ; Venus Zhaawanigiizhik: How I Learned To Love ; Crow Woman You Dreamt Dark from the Name of Fire ; It Was Snowing on the Monuments ; Spirit Matters ; This is How Your Great Uncle Dies ; Zahquod Reaches Through the Hospital Wall to Fire
- Interlude: Waterlogue, Spirit, Containers, Bodies: Living Water Lullaby for Dead Settler Language ; Waterlogue Prelude: The Art of Water ; Dead Settler Waterlogue ; The River Tells, Sings to Us Sleeping
- Countless Red Exits: A Dark Bar Near a Poison River ; Dead GPS ; August Again ; Book of Samuel, Chapter Zahquod- Page Unknown ; Another Spirit Fire Under Empire ; Back Before We Returned to White Clay ; The Archer Uncle ; This Will Be Your Last Ceremony, You Think ; Spirit Matters: In Remembrance ; Shadow Boxes for Zahquod ; Suddenly Cousin X ; Uncle X ; Venus Zhaawanigiizhik Tries to Kill (POV Uncle X)
- Interlude: Ait Uncertain Longing: Broken Table of Contents From Zahquod's Book of Dreams ; The Song I Wanted to Write is Traveling
- Distant Others: Letter to Cousin X ; Among the Almost Decolonized ; The Mute Scribe Recalls Some Talking Circle ; We Regurgitate Diagnoses ; I Have Streamed the Arcane Mother Tongue ; The Ailing Medicine Comedian's Postcolonial Death Song ; Large Provocative Answers ; Given the Crows Gliding Above Me ; Mahtoha's Futile Attempt to Decolonize the Western History Meeting ; Speak Dear Desert Crow ; Postcolonial Dream Abstract no (Blue Shadow Uncle Sings the Sun Down) ; Venus Zhaawanigiizhik Once Said ; Love Letter Delivered by Muskrat ; I Want to See You ; Catalonian Square, Palms and Light ; The Lake Up North ; What Remains ; Dear Firefly ; Memory Song for a Woman at the Southern Door ; Rain I Almost Remember ; Only Lyric Remains Capable ; Sovereignly Erotica ; Uncle X Like Virgil Needs His Own Guide ; Passing Thoughts Over a Fire (Dear Crow Woman) ; (Dear Crow Woman) ; Clues to My Own Silence ; Book of Samuel- Chapter Zahquod, Page Unknown ; Zahquod- My Last Letter ; Crushed Akiiwenzii (A Disintegrating Grandfather Hologram) ; Letter to Zahquod, Spirit Matters ; Let Us Be Painting, Painter, Singing, Singing, Singer For H.E. Ephemera ; Try Not to Say Essence ; Venus Zhaawanigiizhik: Soliloquy ; At Times the Distant Other ; Yet to Be Unnamed Arrival ; Epilogue: Chiaaboos at the River Again.