A collection of poems by an urban Indian from California. In From the Stench of My Belly, she writes: "I'm sure when you were young / you saw Indians on TV / YOU SAW ME ON TV: / Indian princess / rotund squaw / blood-thirsty brave /stoic chief / ungrateful drunk."

"Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection,...

"This revised, corrected, and expanded edition of E.E. Cummings's Complete Poems brings together, for the very first time, all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime. In addition, 164 unpublished poems, issued in 1983 under the title Etcetera, have also been included."--Editor's note.

"In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family's lands and opens a dialogue with history ... Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where her people, and other indigenous families, essentially disappeared. From her memory of her mother's...

Prose poetry teachings of the prophet Almustafa who speaks to the listener about life, love, good and evil, religion, and death.

This work is a compilation of poems from the 13th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. HIs books have been awarded the Society of Midland Authors Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize, the James Boatwright Prize, and two Prairie Schooner Awards. He was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.