Paula Gunn Allen

Skins and Bones

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These poems offer a vision of history, Indian and colonial; stories of contemporary Indian life as current as headlines; and family poems emphasizing the rich cultural mix of the author's Laguna Pueblo-Sioux-Lebanese-Scots background.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: West End Press
• Seitenzahl: 77
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9780931122507
• ISBN-10: 0931122503
• Artikelnr.: 54712545

Autorenporträt

Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna Pueblo/Sioux/Scots/Lebanese poet, philosopher, scholar, and teacher, was born in Cubero, New Mexico, in 1939. She received her doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 1976; her dissertation evolved into a major work of cultural criticism, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Two volumes of her poetry, Skins and Bones and Life Is a Fatal Disease, were published by West End Press. She completed the manuscript for this book a week before her death on May 29, 2008 in Fort Bragg, California.