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  title info:
    title: Flood song
  name:
    name part: Bitsui, Sherwin
    name part: 1975-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wau
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 73 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: "I bite my eyes shut between these songs." So begins Flood Song, a concentrated, interweaving, painterly sequence in which Native tradition scrapes against contemporary urban life. In his second book, Sherwin Bitsui intones landscapes real and imagined, populated with the wrens, winds, and reeds of the high desert and constructed from the bricks and gasoline of the city. Reverent to his family's indigenous traditions while simultaneously indebted to European modernism and surrealism, Bitsui is at the forefront of a younger generation of Native writers. His poems are highly imagistic and constantly in motion, drawing as readily upon Diné (Navajo) myths, customs, and medicine songs as they do contemporary language and poetics. "I map a shrinking map," Bitsui writes, a map tribal and individual, elemental and modern--and utterly astonishing.
  note: Sherwin Bitsui.
  note: Poetry browsing collection: gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    topic: Navajo Indians
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3602.I85 F56 2009
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781556593086 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1556593082 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009024433
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090618
    record change date: 20151202115607.0
    record identifier: in00002653023