Woven stone

Resource Information

The work Woven stone represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Woven stone

Statement of responsibility

Simon J. Ortiz

Creator

• Ortiz, Simon J., 1941-

Contributor

• Momaday, Scott N.
• Hario, Joy
• Deloria, Vine Jr.
• Sekaquaptewa, Emory
• Silko, Marmon Leslie

Editor

• Hario, Joy
• Deloria, Vine Jr.
• Momaday, Scott N.
• Sekaquaptewa, Emory
• Silko, Marmon Leslie

Subject

• Acoma Indians -- Poetry
• American Indian Folklore
• Indians, North American
• Southwest Border collection

Genre

• Poetry

Language

eng

Summary

• ""What I do as a writer, teacher, and storyteller is to demystify language," says Simon Ortiz. Widely regarded as one of the country's most important Native American poets, Ortiz has led a thirty-year career marked by a fascination with language?and by a love of his people. This omnibus of three previous works offers old and new readers an appreciation of the fruits of his dedication. Going for the Rain (1976) expresses closeness to a specific Native American way of life and its philosophy and is structured in the narrative form of a journey on the road of life. A Good Journey (1977), an evocation of Ortiz's constant awareness of his heritage, draws on the oral tradition of his Pueblo culture. Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (1980)?revised for this volume?has its origins in his work as a laborer in the uranium industry and is intended as a political observation and statement about that industry's effects on Native American lands and lives. In an introduction written for this volume, Ortiz tells of his boyhood in Acoma Pueblo, his early love for language, his education, and his exposure to the wider world. He traces his development as a writer, recalling his attraction to the Beats and his growing political awareness, especially a consciousness of his and other people's social struggle. "Native American writers must have an individual and communally unified commitment to their art and its relationship to their indigenous culture and people," writes Ortiz. "Through our poetry, prose, and other written works that evoke love, respect, and responsibility, Native Americans may be able to help the United States of America to go beyond survival." -- publisher's information
• "Widely regarded as one the country's most important Native American poets, Simon Ortiz has had a thrity-year career marked by a fascination with language and by a love of his people. his omnibus of three previous works- 'Going for the Rain', 'A Good Journey' and 'Fight Back: for the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land'- offers old and new readers an appreciation of the fruits of his dedication." -- back cover

Member of

• Sun tracks, v. 21

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS53565.R77

LC item number

W68 1992

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Sun tracks

Series volume

v. 21

Target audience

general