{"product_id":"how-the-songs-come-down-new-and-selected-poems-9781844710645","title":"How the Songs Come Down: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevard’s poems are more like those of Seamus Heaney than those of Paul Muldoon – more like Robert Frost than Wallace Stevens, more like Mark Twain than Henry James. They are true stories, some from time on the Osage Reservation during Dust Bowl days, some from the Isle of Skye in Hippie Time, others from Creation Time in Las Vegas with Trickster, at the Hotel Empire in Manhattan with Dante, under dragons flying over St. Louis, dodging bullets while stealing watermelons, listening to humpbacked whales and wine-throated hummingbirds in Bellagio, parading with the Veterans of Foreign Wars to publicize some powwow in the old Indian-fighter headquarters at Jefferson Barracks on the Mississippi, sitting with Ponca cousins in a bar and hoping not to get shot after the occupation of Wounded Knee. The reason for every poem in this marvellous selection is to invite readers into its personal, familial, communal space to feast with the Ponca people and Revard on whatever they have on the table. These poems are all for having some kind of good time together, and the more the merrier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndian Territory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoyote Tells Why He Sings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeode\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStone Age\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSkins as Old Testament\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDancing with Dinosaurs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDriving in Oklahoma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat the Eagle Fan Says\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBirch Canoe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Chigger Heaven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClose Encounters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWazhazhe Grandmother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePonca War Dancers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver by Fairfax, Leaving Tracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting Across\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePure Country\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCowboys and Indians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommuning Before Supermarkets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn Eagle Nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDragon-watching in St Louis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThat Lightning’s Hard to Climb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnd Don’t Be Deaf to the Singing Beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooking Before and After\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAunt Jewell as Powwow Princess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Earth Brings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Suburbs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Mandala of Sorts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Changing Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOutside in St. Louis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat the Poet’s Cottage in Tucson Said \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the Songs Come Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking Money\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTransactions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarth and Diamonds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmber and Lightning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnowflakes, Waterdrops, Time, Eternity and So On\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnzipping Angels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChristmas Shopping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGiven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiquid Crystal Thoughts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSea-changes, Easter 1990\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaw and Order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscovery of the New World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNovember in Washington, D.C.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistory into Words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnother Sunday Morning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParading with the Veterans of Foreign Wars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComing of Age in the County Jail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree White and Fifteen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirewater\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Response to Terrorists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHamlet and Fortinbras Exchange Pleasantries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Biograbbers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupport your Local Police Dog\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCriminals as Creators of Capital\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChimes at Midnight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Secret Verbs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Planet of Blue-eyed Cats\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song That We Still Sing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStarring America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. To The Eastern Shores of Light\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. New York, With Reservations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. On The Reservation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOver There\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdvice from Euterpe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJetliner from Angel City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere the Muses Haunt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Swan’s Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePilotless Angel: Christmas, 2004\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetter to Friends on the Isle of Skye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePostcolonial Hyperbaggage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColumbus Looks Out Far, In Deep\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBut Still in Israel’s Paths They Shine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSongs of the Wine-throated Hummingbird\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771555250519,"sku":"9781844710645","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844710645.jpg?v=1758728256","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/how-the-songs-come-down-new-and-selected-poems-9781844710645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}