PSALM TO WHOM(E) I am nothing. I am nothing. Father in the volcano. Ice cap. Snowfall.In failure and failure.Father— To whom am I speaking? To whom I am speaking.It is you Father to whom I come in absolute struggle to believe. To follow.I am alone. Without distraction. Tessellate. Fretful. In distress.Over and over.I come before you a deflated bag.I give you myself. What I was before I was broken.Something maybe itself broken as it was spoken into being.As it was being named....
Autor: | Glancy Diane |
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ISBN: | 9781885983343 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
Veröffentlicht: | 24.10.2023 |
Schlagworte: | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas POETRY / American / Native American TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary |
Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. She has won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, and more. Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels, and Booklist named A Line of Driftwood: The Ada Blackjack Story an Editors’ Choice. She lives in Gainesville, Texas.