TY - BOOK ID - 2740804 TI - Sing with the heart of a bear : fusions of native and American poetry 1890-1999 PY - 2000 SN - 0520218906 0520218892 9780520218901 9780520218895 PB - Berkeley (Calif.) : University of California press, DB - UniCat KW - American poetry KW - Indians of North America KW - Indians in literature. KW - Indian authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Indian influences. KW - Indians in literature KW - Indians of Central America in literature KW - Indians of Mexico in literature KW - Indians of North America in literature KW - Indians of South America in literature KW - Indians of the West Indies in literature KW - American literature KW - Indian authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - Indian influences KW - Intellectual life KW - Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Moore, Marianne KW - Plath, Sylvia KW - Berryman, John KW - Pound, Ezra Loomis KW - Stevens, Wallace KW - Roethke, Theodore KW - Momaday, Navarre Scott KW - Welch, James KW - Alexie, Sherman KW - TallMountain, Mary KW - Whiteman, Roberta J. Hill KW - Sarris, Greg KW - Tapahonso, Luci KW - Graham, Jorie KW - Gregg, Linda KW - Olds, Sharon KW - Hogan, Linda KW - Harjo, Joy KW - Forché, Carolyn KW - American poetry - Indian authors - History and criticism. KW - Indians of North America - Intellectual life. KW - American poetry - Indian influences. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2740804 AB - Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, The Path on the Rainbow (1918), which opened Jorge Luis Borges' university surveys of American literature, to thirty-five contemporary Indian poets who speak to, with, and against American mainstream bards. From Whitman's free verse, through the Greenwich Village Renaissance (sandwiched between the world wars) and the post-apocalyptic Beat incantations, to transglobal questions of tribe and verse at the century's close, Lincoln shows where we mine the mother lode of New World voices, what distinguishes American verse, which tales our poets sing and what inflections we hear in the rhythms, pitches, and parsings of native lines. Lincoln presents the Lakota concept of "singing with the heart of a bear" as poetry which moves through an artist. He argues for a fusion of estranged cultures, tribal and émigré, margin and mainstream, in detailing the ethnopoetics of Native American translation and the growing modernist concern for a "native" sense of the "makings" of American verse. This fascinating work represents a major new effort in understanding American and Native American literature, spirituality, and culture. ER -