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Written from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer, and mixed-race experience, "Walking with Ghosts: Poems" confronts the legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands while simultaneously resisting ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual /Transgender (GLBT) communities. The debut work of Qwo-Li Driskill, a young Cherokee poet also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ancestries, these poems move across Cherokee history. From the infamous Trail of Tears and the Allotment Act to the Indian boarding school system and contemporary manifestations of racism, these poems reach into Cherokee collective memory asking its readers to not only remember the history of colonization, but also the survival and continuance of Indigenous Nations. With this collection Driskill, who identifies as Queer as well as Two-Spirit (a contemporary term used in North American Indigenous communities to describe diverse sexual and gender identities) becomes one of only a few of American Indian Queer/Two-Spirit male writers in print. Refusing to compromise identities, Driskill also grapples with the impact of hate crimes on GLBT communities, multiracial and multi-tribal identity, the AIDS crisis, psychic trauma, and war. Yet the poems in this collection are rooted in a sense of love and the power of words to heal the legacies of colonization and other forms of violence. Cherokee love poems weave into eulogies to the dead while ghosts draw the living into a place of wholeness. Tender, startling, confrontational and erotic, this book honors the dead and brings the survivors back home.

Table of Contents:
Tal'-s-go Gal'-quo-gi Di-del'-qua-s-do-di Tsa-la-gi Di-go-whe-li/ Beginning Cherokee Map of the Americas Going Home For Arabs and Indians and Others who Love Cedars Ghost Dances Love Poems for Billy Jack Summer Haiku To Your Rude Question, What's Your Pedigree? A Response High Yella Sonnet Wild Indians What You Must Do For Marsha P. (Pay It No Mind!) Johnson In Our Oldest Language Letter to Tsi-ge'-yu For Matthew The Leading Causes of Death Among American Indians Snapshot Eulogy for the 40th Grandmother Spider's Lesson for an Urban Indian Queer Gay Nigger Number One Lullaby What You Gave Me Allotment T'ang On Hearing Another Friend Was Raped Love Poems: 1838-1839 Evening With Andrew Jackson Mutiny Song of Removal Back to the Blanket Story Night Terrors Two Approaches to Memory I Want to Bite Words Book of Memory Miracle, For Colin At the Queer Conference Dinner Blessing A Long Story Made Short Legacy Chantway for FC

About the Author :
Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit/Queer writer and activist also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ascent. Hir work has been included in Shenandoah, Many Mountains Moving, and in the anthologies Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology and Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry. S/he is currently living in Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi) and Huron territories while pursuing a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844712434
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 162 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1844712435
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2005
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Earthworks
  • Sub Title: Poems
  • Width: 140 mm


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