The Failure of Certain Charms
and Other Disparate Signs of Life
Will be published approx. on 15. February 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-84471-326-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is a poetically charged work of autobiographical retrospection, speculative memory and an artistic alternative to common constructions of identity. The influences include traditional songs, ceremonial undercurrents, dream vehicles, disparate landscapes, chemical vapors, relative longings and belief in the possibility of healing again and again even after death.
Some works herein are water-source clear, some are abstract meditative breaths, some are ironic dialogues with memorial humor and some are attempts to tease characters out into the open.
This collection is held together by relatives, fragments, an undeniable belief in the creative force of even the slightest wisp of memory.
Some works herein are water-source clear, some are abstract meditative breaths, some are ironic dialogues with memorial humor and some are attempts to tease characters out into the open.
This collection is held together by relatives, fragments, an undeniable belief in the creative force of even the slightest wisp of memory.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-326-4 (9781844713264)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. His first novel The Light People won an American Book Award and his work has appeared in numerous journal and anthologies throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University.
Content
Acknowledgements
BESHIG: THE FAILURE OF CERTAIN CHARMS
Calendar of Wasted Seasons
Sleeping In Rain
Waking on a Greyhound Going West
Outside White Earth
Shell Lake
White Earth August Again
Leaving Smoke's
At Once You Recall the Thunder Song
Beyond the Refuge
When Names Escaped Us
The Failure of Certain Charms
NEESH: HOW SOON THE STORY GOES
Calendar of a Wasted Life
Entries Into the Autobiographical I
The First Door: I As Not I
The Second Door: I as Traveler I
Third Door: I As Alter I - An
Autobiographical Meta-Tale on Writing
Fourth Door: I As Still Open I, from Spain
The Saxophonist's Meta-Americana Tour
October Naming
River People - The Lost Watch
Insulin Syringe Blues in the Key of Turtle Mountain
The Rumors Around Us
A Medicine Song
Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman
October Minnehaha Avenue
Postmodern Rez Edge Inhalation: Paint Thinner Sublime
How Soon
NISSWAY: DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOVEREIGN OF ENTELECHY
Calendar of Wasted Seasons
Gaween - Self Portrait:
Letter to the Agency Superintendent:
November Becomes the SkyWith Suppers for the Dead
Untitled Crow Abstract
Windows Against the Rain
Letter to the School Superintendent:
Primitive Epidermal Song
Imperial Lord Woosintoon
Abstract on Imperialist Cartographics
Song for the One Called Enemy
Lost Hunter - Under Hidden Constellations
Another Academic's Last Hope for Coyote Monologue
Simple Four Part Directions for Making Indian Lit
Repeat Smoke Smudge Rinse Repeat
Hope Returns a Lost Whistle
Directions to the Sovereign of Entelechy
NEEWIN: AFTER ZAHQUOD
Calendar of Wasted Seasons
Ahwosso - Past
Song for a SisterWho Won't Let Go
Guessing at the Weight of Spirit
Profile of a Black River Member
Remembering Shadow:In the Art of Not Crying
Rez Edged Suicide Muse
Oshawanung Manido Equay
White Cloud Woman through a Southern Window
Sonny's Wake 2000
White Cloud Woman at Dawn
Dodem Dream Song
Recount to a Black River Elder
Pipestone: The Best Conversations That Never Took Place
Before the Thirsty Dance
A Black River Elder Pretends
Traveling Among Strangers
Zahquod's Land
Blue Thunder Boy Healing Song
BESHIG: THE FAILURE OF CERTAIN CHARMS
Calendar of Wasted Seasons
Sleeping In Rain
Waking on a Greyhound Going West
Outside White Earth
Shell Lake
White Earth August Again
Leaving Smoke's
At Once You Recall the Thunder Song
Beyond the Refuge
When Names Escaped Us
The Failure of Certain Charms
NEESH: HOW SOON THE STORY GOES
Calendar of a Wasted Life
Entries Into the Autobiographical I
The First Door: I As Not I
The Second Door: I as Traveler I
Third Door: I As Alter I - An
Autobiographical Meta-Tale on Writing
Fourth Door: I As Still Open I, from Spain
The Saxophonist's Meta-Americana Tour
October Naming
River People - The Lost Watch
Insulin Syringe Blues in the Key of Turtle Mountain
The Rumors Around Us
A Medicine Song
Jazz Tune for a Hiawatha Woman
October Minnehaha Avenue
Postmodern Rez Edge Inhalation: Paint Thinner Sublime
How Soon
NISSWAY: DIRECTIONS FROM THE SOVEREIGN OF ENTELECHY
Calendar of Wasted Seasons
Gaween - Self Portrait:
Letter to the Agency Superintendent:
November Becomes the SkyWith Suppers for the Dead
Untitled Crow Abstract
Windows Against the Rain
Letter to the School Superintendent:
Primitive Epidermal Song
Imperial Lord Woosintoon
Abstract on Imperialist Cartographics
Song for the One Called Enemy
Lost Hunter - Under Hidden Constellations
Another Academic's Last Hope for Coyote Monologue
Simple Four Part Directions for Making Indian Lit
Repeat Smoke Smudge Rinse Repeat
Hope Returns a Lost Whistle
Directions to the Sovereign of Entelechy
NEEWIN: AFTER ZAHQUOD
Calendar of Wasted Seasons
Ahwosso - Past
Song for a SisterWho Won't Let Go
Guessing at the Weight of Spirit
Profile of a Black River Member
Remembering Shadow:In the Art of Not Crying
Rez Edged Suicide Muse
Oshawanung Manido Equay
White Cloud Woman through a Southern Window
Sonny's Wake 2000
White Cloud Woman at Dawn
Dodem Dream Song
Recount to a Black River Elder
Pipestone: The Best Conversations That Never Took Place
Before the Thirsty Dance
A Black River Elder Pretends
Traveling Among Strangers
Zahquod's Land
Blue Thunder Boy Healing Song