Itch Like Crazy by Wendy Rose
Among Native American writers of mixed-blood heritage, few have expressed their concerns with personal identity with as much passion as Wendy Rose. A mainstay among American Indian poets whose work addresses these issues, she is a writer with whom readers of diverse ethnic backgrounds have consistently identified. In her latest work, Rose returns to these major motifs while exploring a new dimension: using poetry as a tool to delve into the buried secrets of family history and all of American history as well. Confronting questions of personal history that itch like crazy the irritations that drive human existence she acknowledges and pays tribute to her Indian and European ancestors without hiding her anger with American society. Rose's poems are strong political and social statements that have a distinctly narrative flavor. Here are Europeans who first set foot on America's shores while Taino Indians greeted them as if they were visiting neighbors; Hopi and Miwok ""Clan Mothers, grand-daughters, all those the missionaries erased""; and European forebears who as settlers pushed their way relentlessly west. Through her vivid imagery, she speaks to and for these ancestors with a sense of loss and an itching caused by the biases provoked by ethnic chauvinism. Itch Like Crazy is a finely crafted literary work that is also a manifesto addressing contacts and conflicts in the history of Indian-white relations. By presenting another view of U.S. history and its impact on the Native Americans who are her ancestors, it offers a new appreciation of the issue of ""tribal identity"" that too often faces Native peoples of the Americas and is too often misunderstood by Euro-American society.-
Walking the Clouds
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Saanii Dahataal: the Women Are Singing
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Corpse Whale
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For a Girl Becoming
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Blonde Indian
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Cell Traffic
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Woven Stone
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Beyond the Reach of Time and Change
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Luminaries of the Humble
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The Women's Warrior Society
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A Radiant Curve
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From the Belly of My Beauty
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Ocean Power
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Bone Dance
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After and Before the Lightning
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The Names
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Urban Voices
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Out There Somewhere
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Mud Woman
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Chamorrita Song
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Shapeshift
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Life Woven with Song
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Drowning in Fire
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Men on the Moon
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From Sand Creek
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Blue Horses Rush in
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The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories
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The Last of the Ofos
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I Swallow Turquoise for Courage
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The Roads of My Relations
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Time Commences in Xibalba
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Earthquake Weather
Rose, Wendy: - Wendy Rose is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University, UK, and works on national and international child welfare research and development projects. She was previously a senior civil servant advising the government on children's policy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780816521777 |
| ISBN 10 | 0816521778 |
| Title | Itch Like Crazy |
| Author | Wendy Rose |
| Series | Sun Tracks Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
| Year published | 2002-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 121 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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