The poems and stories Rayna Green has chosen for this collection represent some of the most interesting and innovative writing in todays literature, yet their authors are for the most part unrecognized outside of feminist and Native American circles. Thats What She Said provides an opportunity to become acquainted with a unique, exciting body of work.
PREFACE
THE RONAN ROBE SERIES BY JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE-SMITH
Introduction
Paula Gunn Allen
Grandmother
Snowgoose
Coyotes Daylight Trip
The Trick Is Consciousness
Star Child Suite
The Beautiful Woman Who Sings
Suicid/ing(ed) Indian Women
Poem for Pat
Donna
Robin
Womanwork
Madonna of the Hills
Rain for Ka-waik
(San Ysidro, Cabezon)
Kopistaya
The Bearer of the Sun Arises (Fiction)
Diane Burns
Our People
Big Fun
For Carole
Houston and Bowery, 1981
Gladys Cardiff
Long Person
Tsalagi Council Tree
Tlanusiyi, The Leech Place
Grey Woman
Outer Space, Inner Space
Where Fire Burns
Leaves like Fish
Simples
Nora Dauenhauer
Winter Developing
Skiing on Russian Christmas
Breech Birth
Pregnant Image of Exaggerating the Village
Jessy
Seal Pups
Kelp
Rookery
Voices
Genocide
Tlingit Concrete Poem
Charlotte de Clue
the underside of trees
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Healing
Morning Song.
Place-of-Many-Swans.
In Memory of the Moon. (A Killing.)
Ijajees Story
To the spirit of Monahsetah
Diary.
Louise Erdrich
Jacklight
Balinds Dance
The Lady in the Pink Mustang
The Strange People
Snow Train
Painting of a White Gate and Sky
Dear John Wayne
Turtle Mountain Reservation
Scales (Fiction)
Rayna Green
Mexico City Hand Game
When I Cut My Hair
Naneyehi
Coosaponakeesa
Another Dying Chieftain
Old Indian Trick
Road Hazard
Palace Dancer, Dancing at Last
High Cotton (Fiction)
Joy Harjo
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