These thirteen essays reflect Dunsmore's broad experience as a poet, student of native literature, and teacher. They take their inspiration from Chief Joseph's statement that "the Earth and myself are of one mind," and go on to consider Black Elk; the work of D'Arcy McNickle, Simon Ortiz, and Laurens van der Post; Salish stories; and Pueblo sacred clowns. The idea that mind is something larger and more pervasive in nature than the Western tradition has usually considered suggests respect as central to survival and conveys the essential wildness of mind.
Earth's Mind will be useful to those who study or teach native literature or who simply want to understand better native world views.
 "The most original and evocative study of Native American literary accomplishments, and their sources, it has been my pleasure to read in several years."--Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Earth's Mind: Essays in Native Literature

Literature & Fiction

Dunsmore, Roger

Essays & Correspondence

University of New Mexico Press

Blood House

Poetry

Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd

Roger Dunsmore's latest volume, On the Chinese Wall: New &amp; Selected Poems, gathers some fifty years of writing by one of the finest poets of the Great Subculture. The voices of this Subculture emerge from shadow and silence in song, art, story-telling and myth-making, and in particular in the common speech of everyday life. Such is the speech of Dunsmore's poetry, informed by the lyric past of ancient Greece and the visionary traditions of ancient America as expressed by the Sioux visionary Black Elk. Here, among echoes of Archilochos and Meister Eckhart, can be found a poem for a loose ram, a poem for a woman kissing all the icons in the Byzantine Museum in Athens, a poem for a trapper in Montana whose pet wolverine loved Oreo cookies. Dunsmore's poetry derives from an old world of people, creatures, and things held in the compromising embrace of the New: Che Guevera in the mountains; the voices of students in China; and a man named Mike Blue Horse, "best night-hawker on the Hi-line," dancing solo in a bar in Montana.

On the Chinese Wall

Drumlummon Institute

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