{"product_id":"walking-with-ghosts-poems-9781844711130","title":"Walking with Ghosts: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from a contemporary Cherokee, Queer, and mixed-race experience, \u003cem\u003eWalking with Ghosts: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e confronts the legacy of land-theft, genocide, and forced removal of Cherokees from their homelands while simultaneously resisting ongoing attacks on both Indigenous and Gay\/ Lesbian\/ Bisexual \/Transgender (GLBT) communities. The debut work of Qwo-Li Driskill, a young Cherokee poet also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ancestries, these poems move across Cherokee history. From the infamous Trail of Tears and the Allotment Act to the Indian boarding school system and contemporary manifestations of racism, these poems reach into Cherokee collective memory asking its readers to not only remember the history of colonization, but also the survival and continuance of Indigenous Nations. With this collection Driskill, who identifies as Queer as well as Two-Spirit (a contemporary term used in North American Indigenous communities to describe diverse sexual and gender identities) becomes one of only a few of American Indian Queer\/Two-Spirit male writers in print. Refusing to compromise identities, Driskill also grapples with the impact of hate crimes on GLBT communities, multiracial and multi-tribal identity, the AIDS crisis, psychic trauma, and war. Yet the poems in this collection are rooted in a sense of love and the power of words to heal the legacies of colonization and other forms of violence. Cherokee love poems weave into eulogies to the dead while ghosts draw the living into a place of wholeness. Tender, startling, confrontational and erotic, this book honors the dead and brings the survivors back home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTal’-s-go Gal’-quo-gi Di-del’-qua-s-do-di Tsa-la-gi Di-go-whe-li\/ Beginning Cherokee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMap of the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoing Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Arabs and Indians and Others who Love Cedars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGhost Dances\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Poems for Billy Jack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummer Haiku\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTo Your Rude Question, What’s Your Pedigree? A Response\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHigh Yella Sonnet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWild Indians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat You Must Do\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Marsha P. (Pay It No Mind!) Johnson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn Our Oldest Language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLetter to Tsi-ge’-yu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor Matthew\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Leading Causes of Death Among American Indians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnapshot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEulogy for the 40th \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrandmother Spider’s Lesson for an Urban Indian Queer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGay Nigger Number One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLullaby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat You Gave Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAllotment T’ang\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Hearing Another Friend Was Raped\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Poems: 1838–1839\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvening With Andrew Jackson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMutiny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSong of Removal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack to the Blanket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNight Terrors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Approaches to Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Want to Bite Words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook of Memory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMiracle, For Colin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAt the Queer Conference Dinner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlessing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Long Story Made Short\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLegacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChantway for FC\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020709331287,"sku":"9781844711130","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781844711130.jpg?v=1750784159","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/walking-with-ghosts-poems-9781844711130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}