Research Catalog

Title

Winning the Dust Bowl / Carter Revard.

Author

Revard, Carter

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2001.

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Description

xvi, 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

In a memoir in prose and poetry, the author traces his development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet.

Series Statement

Sun tracks ; v. 47

Uniform Title

Sun tracks ; v. 47.

Subject

• Revard, Carter
• 1900-1999
• Indians of North America > Poetry
• Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
• Osage Indians > Poetry
• Depressions > Poetry
• Poetry > Authorship
• Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 > Poetry
• Oklahoma > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Finding a Voice -- Coyote Tells Why He Sings -- 2. Inviting the Muse to Oklahoma -- To the Muse, in Oklahoma -- 3. White Eagle, Early -- Making a Name -- 4. White Eagle, Later -- Paint and Feathers -- 5. Buck Creek to Oxford by Birch Canoe -- Birch Canoe -- The Swan's Song -- 6. Some Worldly Riddles: Trinity and Skunk -- A Trinity-Riddle -- De Gustibus -- 7. Indian Survival, One -- Dancing with Dinosaurs -- 8. Getting Across: Buck Creek to Skye and Back -- Walking with Friends Down Lorigill and Dibadal, on the Isle of Skye -- Getting Across -- Driving in Oklahoma -- Forming Child Poems: Seven / Simon Ortiz -- 9. Back Over to Doe Creek -- Behind the Hill -- 10. Buck Creek, Walking North -- Bringing in the Sheaves -- And Don't Be Deaf to the Singing Beyond -- Chimes at Midnight -- 11. Training Greyhounds: Buck Creek to Abilene, 1943-1948 -- Free White and Fifteen -- 12. Greyhound Coursing Trials: Abilene, Kansas, 1947 -- Greyhound Coursing Trials -- 13. Okie Survival -- Winning the Dust Bowl -- 14. Transubstantiating -- Communing Before Supermarkets -- 15. In the Suburbs -- Given -- 16. Noah's Dove -- Jetliner from Angel City -- 17. In the Hour-Glass: Mundane Mystery #2 -- Liquid Crystal Thoughts -- 18. Song and Dance and Honeybees -- Where the Muses Haunt -- 19. Bellagio Time -- Songs of the Wine-Throated Hummingbird -- 20. Buck Creek -- My Right Hand Don't Leave Me No More -- 21. Losses, One -- That Lightning's Hard to Climb -- 22. Losses, Two -- Wazhazhe Grandmother -- 23. Losses, Three -- Pure Country -- 24. Leaving Tracks: Ponca, Osage, and Others -- Over by Fairfax, Leaving Tracks -- 25. Going to College -- Sea-Changes, Easter 1990 -- 26. Losses, Four -- We Were Seven -- 27. Family Values: Bankrobbing -- 28. Losses, Five -- Support Your Local Police Dog -- 29. Indian Survival, Two -- Parading with the Veterans of Foreign Wars -- 30. Indian Survival, Three: In and Out of Las Vegas -- 31. Close Encounters -- Close Encounters -- 32. Indian Survival, Four: At Cahokia Mounds -- Aunt Jewell as Powwow Princess -- 33. Indian Survival, Five: In the Solutrean Caves -- Skins as Old Testament -- 34. Indian Survival, Six: Among the Stars -- On the Planet of Blue-Eyed Cats -- 35. Discovering America: Antelope Canyon -- Indian Country: That Dark Romantic Chasm -- 36. Soul and Body Medicine -- Spirituality 101: Snakeroot -- Spirituality 102: Cakes and Ale, Bread and Wine -- 37. Foresight and Hindsight -- Looking Before and After -- 38. Indian Survival, Seven: After Sand Creek -- A Song That We Still Sing.

ISBN

• 0816520704 (alk. paper)
• 0816520712 (pbk.)

LCCN

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OCLC

• 44578726
• SCSB-12739714

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library