Indian Giver

✍ Scribed by John Smelcer

• Publisher: Leapfrog Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 101 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1935248812

✦ Synopsis

"Poetry at its most satirical and courageous. A tremendous book."--Seamus Heaney

"Few voices in American literature are so honest and daring."--Mark Strand

"One of our most brilliant poets."--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"I feel the primal grain and temper of the genuine here."--William Heyen

"A lament, a protest, an inextinguishable song."--Sherod Santos

"Among the best and most original poets in America."--Stanley Kunitz

"Nothing short of splendid."--Robert Nazarene

"The kind of energy found in the poems of William Carlos Williams and Gary Snyder."--Joseph Bruchac

These poems tell harsh truths of hopelessness and genocide. The confusion of children whose religion is forbidden; the ironic poverty of a lottery winner; an alternate American history in which Columbus turns and sails away--in deceptively simple language, we hear the protest of survivors. "'Indian' is not a derogatory word. It's...