Research Catalog

Title

Out there somewhere / Simon J. Ortiz.

Author

Ortiz, Simon J., 1941-

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Description

vii, 158 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sun tracks ; v. 49

Uniform Title

Sun tracks ; v. 49.

Subject

• Acoma Indians > Poetry
• New Mexico > Poetry

Contents

• Headlands Journal -- Before and Behind Me -- Transcribing -- Essentialism -- History's Midst -- Hoping to Hear -- Chant -- Be -- In the Moment Before -- For Now It's Enough: Late Night at ARA House: Thank God -- Seed -- Not by Any Chance -- The Spring -- It Didn't Matter -- "Being Poor" and Powerless. And Refusing Again -- Anthropology of American Scholars: Notes, That Is -- Back East. But When? Where? What? Who? -- Histories, Places, Indians, Just Like Always -- The Law -- Welcome to America the Mall -- What Indians? -- Strange -- Not Somewhere Else -- Greatest Believers Greatest Disbelievers -- "Indians" Wanted -- Believing the Belief -- Even "the Indians" Believed -- What We Know -- Always Just Like You Just Like Me -- To Plant Again -- Your Eternity -- A Picture -- A Gift to Give and Receive -- Their Gift -- Epic -- Telling and Showing Her -- Sparrows -- Our Children Will Not Be Afraid -- For the Children -- Always the Song -- Rain -- Waiting for a Friend --
• The Laughing Horse -- Not Knowing and Knowing -- The Prairie's Song -- Blue Whale, the Largest Living Animal I've Never Seen -- Kaweshtima Sharing Its Existence with Me and Me Sharing My Existence with Kaweshtima -- Look to the Mountain -- Mountains All Around -- Acoma Poems -- Kuutra Tsah-tseh-ma Srutai-kyuiyah (Your Life You Are Carrying) -- Da-aah Mehyuu-nah Nuudeh-guyah Sru'tsah (This is the Way Still We Shall Go On) -- Ahmoo Staiyatru-tyaimishi, Da-ah Srai-tru-nih (Beloved My Descendants, I Know You This Way) -- Hihdruutsi, Nuyuuh Da-ah-sheeya 'Tsadzehni Neeya Emeh-eh-eh'tseh (Hihdruutsi, In the Way of My Own Language That Is My Name) -- Dzah-dzenah Hamaa'tzeh-shimeh-nah Kuus'gaiyuunuh (It Is No Longer the Same as It Was in the Olden Days) -- Land and Stars, the Only Knowledge -- Beauty All Around: A Moment on the Lakota Prairie -- Getting Ready -- Culture and the Universe -- Making Quiltwork -- More Than Just a River -- Consternation -- In El Paso Many Birthdays Ago --
• Tsegi Canyon -- By the Cottonwood -- Hunting for Stones -- No Weather Map -- Kite -- What I Know -- Light -- February and Violet -- Thursday, March 3, 1994 -- Pause: Yours: Ours -- Admitting -- Eagle Wing -- Flagstaff Notes -- Beginning and Ending Song: Part 1 -- Nothing but Eternity -- Busted Boy -- Meanwhile: Soon the Millennia: Burning Forests: Indians Killed: October 6, 1997 -- Mutant and Wise -- Past Poems -- The Best Movies -- Time as Memory as Story -- Just Call It Smiling for Victory -- Beginning and Ending Song: Part 2.

ISBN

• 0816522081 (acid-free paper)
• 0816522103 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2001002743

OCLC

• ocm46959962
• SCSB-4282806

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries