Native Voices

<div>I write from a continuous space of erasure. Poetry was the one way that I was able to hold onto...my history geography and language. - Craig Santos Perez contributor<br> In this groundbreaking anthology of Indigenous poetry and prose Native poems stories and essays are informed with a knowledge of both what has been lost and what is being restored. It offers a diverse collection of stories told by Indigenous writers about themselves their histories and their present. It is a celebration of culture and the possibilities of language.<br> Featuring forty-four poets including Ishmael Hope Bojan Louis Ruby Murray Simon Ortiz Leslie Marmon Silko Luci Tapahonso Joy Harjo dg okpik Sherwin Bitsui Heid E. Erdrich Layli Long Soldier and Orlando White.<br> Original influence essays by Diane Glancy on Lorca Chrystos on Audre Lorde Louise Erdrich on Elizabeth Bishop LeAnne Howe on W. D. Snodgrass Allison Hedge Coke on Delmore Schwartz Suzanne Rancourt on Ai and M. L. Smoker on Richard Hugo among others.<br> And a selection of resonant work chosen from previous generations of Native artists.<br> There really is no better anthology out there that collects indigenous poets publishing from 1960 to the present. - Dean Rader co-editor</div>