Itch Like Crazy

Name: Itch Like Crazy
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ISBN: 9780816521777

ISBN-10: 0816521778

ISBN-13: 9780816521777

Edition: 3rd 2002

Authors: Wendy Rose

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Among Native American writers of mixed-blood heritage, few have expressed their concerns with personal identity with as much passion as Wendy Rose. In Itch Like Crazy, this gifted writer uses poetry as a tool to delve into the buried secrets of family history -- and all of American history as well. Confronting questions of personal history that itch like crazy -- the irritations that drive human existence -- Rose pays tribute to her Indian and European ancestors without hiding her anger with American society. Here are Europeans who first set foot on America's shores while Taino Indians greeted them as if they were visiting neighbors; Hopi and Miwok "Clan Mothers, grand-daughters, all those…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 11/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




These Bones


Imagine it like this


It happened that we were gathering shellfish


The Itch: First Notice


The Itch: Second Notice


Genealogical Research


Aborigine and Queen


Turning


Dear Grandfather Webb from England


Margaret Castor


Joseph Bigler


Margaret Mourns the Death of Joseph Bigler


Margaret Opens the Bon Ton Saloon


Castle Blake, Tipperary


Hugh Massey Barrett


Thinking of Andrew in Orono, Maine


Andrew MacInnes, You Look West Just at the Moment I Look East


Captain Andrew MacInnes of the Norfolk Militia


Henrietta's Song for Joseph


Joseph


Defending Earth against the Gold Rush


My Ghost Comes to Joseph Evans and Isabel Graham


One-Way Conversations: Grandmothers


1830 as I Remember It



This Heart


One of those days when I see Columbus


International Hour of Prayer for the Yellowstone Buffalo Herd


I make this woman


Foremothers, I am that child


Listen. This is the Lie They Believed


Grandmother Rattler


Pahana Names the Mountain Flowers


Women Like Me


Signs of Survival: My Sister Weeds


Buckeye as You Are: September 11, 2001


Scientists said they expect to discover space warps


Epilogue: Leonid Shower, Late Fall, 2001



Listen Here for the Voices