Earthquake weather : poems

Gould, Janice 1949- (Author).

Summary: A collection by an Indian poetess from California. In Blood Sisters, she writes: "I told you about the Maidu song my mother sang / in a scale I could never learn, / and about the tree on an old dirt road / where the white men lynched my people. / ... / We glance at one another / fall silent. / Americans do not know these things / nor do they want to know."

Record details

ISBN: 0816516103 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780816516100 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0816516308 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780816516308 (paper : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xv, 87 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Mornings are like this -- Ants -- Sunday mornings -- Blood sisters -- What happened to my anger -- Evening news -- Friday evening -- Outside language -- The day of the dead -- This energy in which we exist -- Questions about the soul -- Alphabet -- Nightfall -- Saturday morning -- Trying to hold on -- The sixties -- Thursdays -- Berkeley life -- Easter sunday -- My father -- Our house -- A journey -- Mama's girl -- Burdens of the heart -- Companion -- When I lived by the river -- Snow -- I learn a lesson about our society -- Amorcita -- Earthquake weather -- Your least good lover -- On Point Reyes -- A flirtation -- Late summer in the Sierra -- Days without you.