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one of the best
an insightful collection of essays on topics and poets writing from a native american perspective. some of these should really be required reading for all american literature courses.
Excerpts:Introduction:"Failing to recognize the existence of genres is equivalent to claiming that a literary work does not bear any relationship to already existing works. Genres are precisely those relay-points by which the work assumes a relation with the universe of literature" --Tzvetan Todorov (3)."There is no genre of 'Indian Literature' because we are all different. There is only literature written by people who are Indian and who, therefor, infuse their work with their own lives the sam...
Gould's "Poems as Maps . . . " - very good shit.