Firesticks by Diane Glancy
There was the darkness of a dream again. And in that darkness, the burning firesticks the men used to carry from the holy Keetowah fire to light the smaller fires in the cabins. It had been a yearly celebration. Light of darkness. New life from ashes.But now we had lost our ceremonies. So dreams Turle in the novella that moves through the shorter prose pieces that make up this collection. Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, Diane Glancy's stories are lyrical yet dawn to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheess concern people who are very real - a color-blind young boy who watches planes in flight and imagines color; a shy stamp collector who speculates that he and his friend, like the stamps, could go anywhere via the U.S. Post Office; an old woman who dies in the cold landscape of her inner life but retains her vision; a cynical woman reluctant to take risks with yet another traveling man. In spite of life's hard realities, Firesticks is filled with humor and hope and a stitching together of cultures, as the cross-blood characters search for their identities. The stories are unified by the theme of transformation through flight, by means of planes and aviators, birds, postage stamps, balloons, shooting stars, the constellations, and the sky itself. Ultimately, Glancy's stories, or firesticks, are like prayers offered up to heaven, and the words themselves become, not a way to separate, but a way to speak things into existence.-
A Pipe for February
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American Gypsy
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Other Words
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The Cherokee Syllabary
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Pushing the Bear
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Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories
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The Massacre at Sand Creek
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Faces in the Moon
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The Sharpest Sight
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The Native American Renaissance
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After the Theft of the Sacred Volume 75
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The Mask Maker
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The Singing Bird
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Field of Honor
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Wil Usdi
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Briefcase Warriors
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The Absence of Angels
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Muting White Noise
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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906
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Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction
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Native Removal Writing
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Twenty Thousand Mornings
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Mixedblood Messages
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Bone Game
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Red Bird, Red Power
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I Hear the Train
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Padoskoks
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Eye Killers
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Chenoo
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John Joseph Mathews
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Plastic Indian
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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction
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Where the Pavement Ends
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Nightland
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Wolfsong
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Only Approved Indians
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Other Destinies
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Summer in the Spring
Diane Glancy is Professor of English at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has received the Cherokee Medal of Honor from the Cherokee Honor Society. She is also an award-winning author of poetry, short stories, and plays. Her works include War Cries, a collection of plays, and Firesticks and The Voice That Was in Travel, both short story collections published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Her collection of essays, Claiming Breath, won the North American Indian Prose Award and an American Book Award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780806124902 |
| ISBN 10 | 0806124903 |
| Title | Firesticks |
| Author | Diane Glancy |
| Series | American Indian Literature And Critical Studies Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Year published | 1993-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 148 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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