The Book Of Bearings (Poiema Poetry)
Cascade Books
ISBN13:
9781532672156
$12.86
The Book of Bearings puts the puzzle pieces of the New World together without a picture on the puzzle box. The characters struggle to situate themselves between what they were and what they are supposed to become. The poems include voices from the mid-nineteenth-century Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and the mid-twentieth-century Eskimo experience in Alaska, as well as personal narratives. This book addresses the Native American process of assimilation from first contact through education in the civilized world. It is a view of that world from the eyes of those who were seen as the conquered. The Book of Bearings seeks its bearing in a shifting world. Often it focuses on the effects of Christianity. The characters use the new language to frame their various experiences. They use language as a tool for understanding what cannot fully be understood, which, for the believer, is the transformation in Christ when he left the world charged with his light.
- | Author: Diane Glancy
- | Publisher: Cascade Books
- | Publication Date: Feb 27, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 70 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1532672152
- | ISBN-13: 9781532672156
- Author:
- Diane Glancy
- Publisher:
- Cascade Books
- Publication Date:
- Feb 27, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 70 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1532672152
- ISBN-13:
- 9781532672156