Philadelphia flowers : poems

Whiteman, Roberta Hill. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0930100654 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780930100650 (cloth)
ISBN: 0930100646 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780930100643 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
122 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press, 1996.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

I: Kolanchoe -- Dreaming in broad daylight -- First language -- Where I come from -- What she named him -- Waterfall in Como Park -- Acknowledgment -- In the summer after "issue year winter -- This gift -- Home before dark -- One more sign -- Before the wall -- Black out -- Waiting for Robinson -- From the sun itself -- Breaking trail -- Fogbound -- Against annihilation -- Speaking through the generations -- Unbinding anger -- Reparations -- They mention a word like welcome -- II: Philadelphia flowers -- Being Indian -- The patriarch's power -- Our different story -- Of light, water and gathered dust -- Letting go -- Van Gogh in the olive grove -- Wolf smoke -- Empress Hsiao-Jui speaks her mind -- Traveling -- Storm warning -- Preguntas -- You call me less than all I am -- Wish from an office window -- The earth and I are one -- Breaking through -- Morning talk -- Your fierce resistance -- A presence that found me again, again -- No longer -- Wherever in winter -- A place for silence -- Speaking with mother -- The powwow crowd -- From boat to barnacle.

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Also issued online.