The Feathered Heart

by Mark Turcotte

Overview

This revised and expanded edition of The Feathered Heart, Mark Turcotte's celebrated collection of Native American poetry, brings traditional oral culture to print. Torn, painful, vibrant, and full of hope, his poetry weaves together the multilayered and textured fabric of contemporary Native American urban and rural existence. Appropriately, each poem in The Feathered Heart possesses a deeply lyrical quality. Raw emotion echoes in Turcotte's voice, in his verse, in the things he sees. "Ten Thousand Thousand Bones," for example, "a poem about the desecration of Native American burial sites and objects by archeologists," is dedicated "to an ancient woman taken from the Earth near New Lenox, Illinois in the winter 1993/94."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628952148
Publisher:	Michigan State University Press
Publication date:	05/31/1998
Series:	American Indian Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mark Turcotte, a Chippewa writer born of an Ojibway father and Irish- American mother, spent his earliest years on North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Reservation and in the migrant camps of the western United States. He has won a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and a Lannan Foundation Literary Grant .

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
The Eye Shakes
Horse and Cradle
Tiny Warriors
Flies Buzzing
True Sign
Indian Boys
Room Still Full of Death
Father's Dust
Window Glass
Unshadow
Sky Breathes Sky
Flying With the Wind
Horse Dance
Recognize Stepfather
And Betty Jean
Under Gray Gods
Folded Down
Animal Shadows
Indio
Leads You To Water
The Boy Dances
Angels We
Hands
This Wind
The Flower On
Feather
Wedding
Amber On Opal
Rain Rain
Chippewa Hitch Hike
Arrow, Humming
Motherdrum
Ten Thousand Thousand Bones
Brother River Dreams
Cyrus Calls For His Pony
Last Drink
Half Blood
Song for the Endless Others
The Poets Coming
Growler
Winter
Foreign Shore