Redoubted
Poems by
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
197 pages
978-1-938065-07-1 (ISBN)
Description
R. Vincent Moniz, Jr., records the life and times of a mostly uneducated, economically disadvantaged, literary award-winning urban Indian. Much of his work reflects the people and stories from a neighborhood with the moniker Cockroach while simultaneously depicting contemporary issues of Native America. Poems in this collection are filled with a dreaded fire of wit and cynicism given to him by the Oglala and NuuEtaare peoples who helped to raise him. With a great deal of bathos, he glides and slides seamlessly from silly to sorrow without effort. His formidable verse irradiates and acknowledges the lives of an in-between people who are too urban for the reservation and too indigenous for American culture, while he himself navigates multitudes, including his place within nerd/pop culture, which widens the scope of his writing. This collection mirrors a subculture that is being either hustled or altogether overlooked, and does so honestly without filter or worry. Moniz's poetic genetics are a blend of orators that came before him and a new wave of emerging Indigenous American voices. The reader can see these narratives twist and turn to the heartbeat he writes them in.
Reviews / Votes
" 'A poem is wanting what no one will give you.' Moniz is a poet who knows that those of us who are imperfect and forgotten and leaking are the ones who need poems the most. Here is a wizard of shifting alignment, an astronaut moonwalking on Franklin Avenue, a bruised storyteller who glued his own hands back together to tell you the secrets that live under highway bridges."-BAO PHI, author of Thousand Star Hotel
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing
United States
Publishing group
Michigan State University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-938065-07-1 (9781938065071)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
R. VINCENT MONIZ, JR., NuuEtaare tribal member and enrolled citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, is 2013 Beyond the Pure Fellow, 2014 Verve Fellow, 2015 Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, Minnesota Emerging Writers' Grantee, 2016 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grantee, and current and reigning Individual World Poetry Slam Indigenous Slam Champion.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
12:12:12 12/12/12
It All Just Fades Away
Bison Heart
While Boss Wabooz Sits and Thinks
On the Cusp of Change, Dream Just Hard
In The Last Village's Gym
The First Rule
Seceded Urban Lands
Benson Formation
Who Is Coyote?
2477-365
Wished for a Year of It
The Wind of This Way
Heard Your Buffalo on The Ave.
Chubby Shoulders
Hurt Back
When Frank Yellow Jumped Out of History to Hand Me an American Spirit
Created by Triumph and Tragedy
Word Medicine
When Fire Replaced Their Eyes
Upper Seward
Flight in a Pawn Shop
SKINS! IN! SPACE!
Spins a First Snow Story
If I Was a Chairman
Sidewalk Indian Holiday Greeting
A History Nicknamed Cockroach
Braided and Unbranded
Cosmic Eventide of Graceful Movement
Sing Loud
Headed Out
All Systems Nominal
House and a Horse
High Plains Drifter Pugilism
Seekers
When I Danced a Manifold Destiny from Boss Wabooz
My Stereotype Came to Me in a Dream
We Dance in Our Sleep
Duluth/Superior
Summer Solstice and Aboriginal Day
Crossroads
How to Travel Home
Oceans of Time
My Girlfriend Thinks She's Han Solo
Bannock Erotic
She of Implausible Trio
Something-est
Video of Chicken Dance-Off Keeps Me Connected to Home
In the Shire of My Mind
I Am Away
For My Valentine, on Our 8th Year
Wiped Out
Ride North on a Horse I Slicked Passed a Dim Electric Circus
5 Things I Learned in My First Poetry Mentorship Meeting
In the Amber Light of My Afternoon Imagination
Back Beyond the Dark Blues of Reflective Singularity
Time Travel
Greatest Contest Pow-Wow in the Whirl
Head Cold Reaction
Dream
The Only Permanence I'll Ever Need
The Sweet Science of Habitat
Terraforming the Final Frontier
From the Upper Pilothouse
The Bear Nails Are Coming in Different
Get Back Home
Lost, She Moved
Indian Jesus
The Old Age Home of Stereotypes
An Unedited Round Dance Song Named "Chubby Brown Man's Choice in the Pow Wow of My Heart"
Man of Wood's Lodge
New Migration Ritual
The Power of White
Fast Horse
Celebration of Stillness in the Shark's Heart
Been Thinking about It Forever
Pollen Takers' Return
Dancing and Singing Moon to Bed and Sun to Birth
BiG Word Mom Lets Me Tag Along
Lamb Hearts
60 Seconds That Never Was
Star Chart
Fata Morgana
The Sacred Convergence
[Day in Sun]
Atewaye Ki (My Father)
Lerleane
Two Extra Arms and Legs
Savage Something
Unfadeable, So Please Don't Try to Fade This
One Last Neon Buffalo Jump
Greatest Indian Woman in the World Convention
A Poem for Mr. J
Cease
Death of Steel and Stone
These Lights Flicker and Fall
Redoubted
Small Circles
[Hollow Bones]
Out to Adventure and Find the Me I've Hidden Away from Everyone
On a Lake Named Warm Precious Hands
They Leap out into Irradiated Brilliance
1919
Visiting Hours
Earth-Hued Memory of Rest Lost in Song
Because Every Day I Miss You, Madly
Learning to Call Myself Home
In an Old and Good Way
On a Bridge No One Walks on for Help
Rise Against Ebb and Flow
Still I Rise
Acknowledgments
12:12:12 12/12/12
It All Just Fades Away
Bison Heart
While Boss Wabooz Sits and Thinks
On the Cusp of Change, Dream Just Hard
In The Last Village's Gym
The First Rule
Seceded Urban Lands
Benson Formation
Who Is Coyote?
2477-365
Wished for a Year of It
The Wind of This Way
Heard Your Buffalo on The Ave.
Chubby Shoulders
Hurt Back
When Frank Yellow Jumped Out of History to Hand Me an American Spirit
Created by Triumph and Tragedy
Word Medicine
When Fire Replaced Their Eyes
Upper Seward
Flight in a Pawn Shop
SKINS! IN! SPACE!
Spins a First Snow Story
If I Was a Chairman
Sidewalk Indian Holiday Greeting
A History Nicknamed Cockroach
Braided and Unbranded
Cosmic Eventide of Graceful Movement
Sing Loud
Headed Out
All Systems Nominal
House and a Horse
High Plains Drifter Pugilism
Seekers
When I Danced a Manifold Destiny from Boss Wabooz
My Stereotype Came to Me in a Dream
We Dance in Our Sleep
Duluth/Superior
Summer Solstice and Aboriginal Day
Crossroads
How to Travel Home
Oceans of Time
My Girlfriend Thinks She's Han Solo
Bannock Erotic
She of Implausible Trio
Something-est
Video of Chicken Dance-Off Keeps Me Connected to Home
In the Shire of My Mind
I Am Away
For My Valentine, on Our 8th Year
Wiped Out
Ride North on a Horse I Slicked Passed a Dim Electric Circus
5 Things I Learned in My First Poetry Mentorship Meeting
In the Amber Light of My Afternoon Imagination
Back Beyond the Dark Blues of Reflective Singularity
Time Travel
Greatest Contest Pow-Wow in the Whirl
Head Cold Reaction
Dream
The Only Permanence I'll Ever Need
The Sweet Science of Habitat
Terraforming the Final Frontier
From the Upper Pilothouse
The Bear Nails Are Coming in Different
Get Back Home
Lost, She Moved
Indian Jesus
The Old Age Home of Stereotypes
An Unedited Round Dance Song Named "Chubby Brown Man's Choice in the Pow Wow of My Heart"
Man of Wood's Lodge
New Migration Ritual
The Power of White
Fast Horse
Celebration of Stillness in the Shark's Heart
Been Thinking about It Forever
Pollen Takers' Return
Dancing and Singing Moon to Bed and Sun to Birth
BiG Word Mom Lets Me Tag Along
Lamb Hearts
60 Seconds That Never Was
Star Chart
Fata Morgana
The Sacred Convergence
[Day in Sun]
Atewaye Ki (My Father)
Lerleane
Two Extra Arms and Legs
Savage Something
Unfadeable, So Please Don't Try to Fade This
One Last Neon Buffalo Jump
Greatest Indian Woman in the World Convention
A Poem for Mr. J
Cease
Death of Steel and Stone
These Lights Flicker and Fall
Redoubted
Small Circles
[Hollow Bones]
Out to Adventure and Find the Me I've Hidden Away from Everyone
On a Lake Named Warm Precious Hands
They Leap out into Irradiated Brilliance
1919
Visiting Hours
Earth-Hued Memory of Rest Lost in Song
Because Every Day I Miss You, Madly
Learning to Call Myself Home
In an Old and Good Way
On a Bridge No One Walks on for Help
Rise Against Ebb and Flow
Still I Rise