America the beautiful : last poems

Summary: These poems, written in the last decade of Paula Gunn Allen's life, capture the variety, ingenuity, and complexity of this beloved and influential Native American critic and poet. In her lexicon, what makes America beautiful may come as a surprise: its horrors confront its hopefulness, its absurdities challenge its promise. A powerful, sustained lyrical and narrative sequence written in the midst of political and personal catastrophe, Allen's last book is at once a bonfire made up of the ruins of civilization, a call for one more effort to set things right, and a gift to us all from this fertile and generous writer.

Record details

ISBN: 9780981669359 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0981669352 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
ix, 100 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Albuquerque, NM : West End Press, 2010

Content descriptions

General Note:

"July, 2010"--T.p. verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: Apache Warrior [ -- ] Apache Troop / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful I / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful II / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful III / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful IV / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful V / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful VI / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful VII / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful VIII / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful IX / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful X / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XI / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XII / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XIII / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XIV / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XV / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XVI / Patricia Clark Smith -- America the Beautiful XVII / Patricia Clark Smith