I Swallow Turquoise for Courage

Name: I Swallow Turquoise for Courage
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ISBN: 9780816525928

ISBN-10: 0816525927

ISBN-13: 9780816525928

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Hershman R. John

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Alk'ididaa' jini. The stories begin. In poems that exude the warmth of an afternoon in the southwestern sun, Hershman John draws readers into a world both familiar and utterly new. Raised on a reservation and in boarding schools, then educated at a state university, John writes as a contemporary Navajo poet. His is a new voice--one that understands life on both sides of the canyon that divides, but does not completely separate, the Dine people from their neighbors who live outside the reservation. His poetry draws freely from tribal myths and legends, and like its creator, it lives outside the reservation too. Perhaps that is why they seem so unspoiled, so sparkling. They are like gemstones…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 9/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Two bodies of elements


Coyote's eyes


A sheep dog locked in photograph


Wooden duck


Watering the sheep


Post-modernity in Kayenta


My feminist grandmother


Man living on the rock


Coyote's ad infinitum


A '49 love chant


A postcard from Van Gogh


Storm patterns


The dark world


Gambling a good night away


A strong male rain


Coyote took her class


Spider woman's children


The rottweiler


Refusing to be blessed


She is ready to weave


Four days, four nights


A sheep dog laments


Buffalo head nickel


Theory of light


The blue world


Grandmother moon


Canyons echo grandma


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