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The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor
Author(s): Deborah L. Madsen
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 280 pages
- ISBN-10: 0826352499
- ISBN-13: 9780826352491
Book Description
Throughout his poetic career Vizenor has returned to common tropes, themes, and structures. Indeed, it is difficult to distinguish clearly his work in poetry from his prose, fiction, and drama. The essays gathered in this collection offer powerful evidence of the continuing influence of Anishinaabe dream songs and the haiku form in Vizenor’s novels, stories, and theoretical essays; this influence is most obvious at the level of grammatical structure and imagistic composition but can also be discerned in terms of themes and issues to which Vizenor continues to return.
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The first book devoted exclusively to the poetry and literary aesthetics of one of Native America’s most accomplished writers, this collection of essays brings together detailed critical analyses of single texts and individual poetry collections from diverse theoretical perspectives, along with comparative discussions of Vizenor’s related works.
