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Walking the Rez Road contains forty short stories and poems featuring Luke Warmwater as a central character. Luke is a Vietnam veteran who has survived the war but is having "trouble/surviving the peace" on a reservation where everyone is broke and where the tribal government seems to work against the interests of the reservation folk. Throughout Walking the Rez Road, it is humor that holds the people and their community together.
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Milkweed Editions
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[1985]
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English
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To say that Boxelder Bug Variations is an unusual book is indeed an understatement. It is unusual in its subject, in its range of forms, and most of all, in the incredible energy and whimsy of its imagination. We move from poems to meditations, from a conversation with an entomologist to an essay on clavichords and fugues, from musical scores to fables, haiku, and even a bit of family and local history. In short, if it's hard to pin down exactly what...
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Westerheim Press
Pub. Date
1981.
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English
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"Poems, prose and art by: John Allen, Carol Bly, Robert Bly, Alec Bond, Florence Dacey, Philip Dacey, Leo Dangel, Kathy Flood, Daren Gislason, Tom Guttormsson, Phebe Hanson, Margaret Hasse, Tom Hennen, Bill Holm, Rollie Johnson, William Kloefkorn, Ted Kooser, Michelle Koppien, Ralph Larson, Frederick Manfred, Freya Manfred, Marya Manfred, Howard Mohr, Joland Mohr, Susan Mohr, Roy B. Moore, Joe Paddock, Nancy Paddock, Scott Perrizo, John Rezmerski,...
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"In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout her bestselling classic on the process of writing - a book that has inspired thousands to discover, or rediscover, their own creativity." -- Back cover.
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A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. "Why do we write?" With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand the source...
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"The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays"--
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious...
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