{"product_id":"the-fork-in-the-road-indian-poetry-store-9781844712670","title":"The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNative Writers Circle Of The Americas First Book Award For Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e These poems rise from the smoke of a Council Fire. Around the fire gather many nations of the world, some angry, some at peace. The nations’ emissaries accept invitations to stand together at the Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store and turn rhythmically to the four cardinal directions, so that the earth can regain its balance. Facing East, the ambassadors see Flags of Mercy hanging over New York City and Nagasaki, then encounter and embrace a manic-depressive Native Hawaiian-Cherokee medicine man in Oklahoma City. Traveling closer to the moon and stars they fly with a dreamer in the Garden of the Bumblebees, and they listen in Weleetka, Oklahoma, to the last two living speakers of Yuchi. Turning North, the councilors ice skate with post-Vietnam revolutionaries on glacier lakes in Idaho. They chase grouse in snow two feet deep, ponder dormancy in hyphenated winters and university libraries, and learn the best way to build a fall fire. Facing West, they lie on cool, creek bed vulvas of earth in sweltering Great Plains summer, navigate a wilderness river in canoes, and kiss a lover at dawn in the Chihuahan desert. Finally, turning in the divine direction South, the emissaries hear The Story of The Seeds, a journey back to 1540, to the conquest of Mabila by De Soto. In a stream of survival, they emigrate with Choctaws on trails of tears from Mississippi to Oklahoma, before sharing big ripe melons in the delta of the Vegetable River. They finish their revolution facing east again, just before dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART I. Facing East\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConstruction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCouncil Fire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlag of Mercy \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCloser to the Moon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCeremony\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore Like Children \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHolhpokunna The Garden of the Bumblebees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMixed Blood \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMother Yakni\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Great Society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRain Dancers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Carpenter's Dilemma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elike a full moon over a thunderhead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART II. Turning North\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOchre Hole\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRevolutionaries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Big Woodpecker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhen you foresee the unforeseeable\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiphthongs to Dipterons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStepping Out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEarth Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndangered Species\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShimmering Thread\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHyphenated Winter  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUniversity Library \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWater Planet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWinter Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Have Some Advice For You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART III. Facing West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Two-Pronged Stick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFather Luak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorld's Largest Rez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJournal Entry: March 23rd, Chihuahuan Desert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAm I Seeing?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehalito akhana hello my friend \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBallad of Kenneth Ruth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnumpa Apesa a Iti Hikia: The Judgment of Standing Trees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClick Beetle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLife's Work:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Found the Earth in Snails\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnake Bags\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe Spoke French Throughout the Desert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe Showed Them Snakes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emost cynics would laugh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Nile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll About Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn That Great Plateau\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Desert Love Poem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART IV. Turning South\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecreator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Story of The Seeds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo Goodbye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnumpa Boklukfi Hilha The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dogs Did Not Follow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Crow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lost Ponds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite Bone Hooks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAiena e-Taloa We Sing Together\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeadowlark, Large Family of the Plains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRagged Owl Nest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Popular Theme\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBohpoli\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMobius Garden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVegetable River\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFire and Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFried Rabbit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDigging Deeper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBefore Dawn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771556102487,"sku":"9781844712670","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844712670.jpg?v=1758728257","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-fork-in-the-road-indian-poetry-store-9781844712670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}