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53 produkter
Dream of a Broken Field
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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The dream of a broken field is to bear crops. The dream of a broken history is to create meaning, to find among the fragments a way to tell the story of a life. It is this dream that Diane Glancy pursues here, through essays on writing, faith, family, teaching, and retirement. Blending a poet's …
Designs of the Night Sky
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2011
183 kr
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In this innovative novel, a librarian of Cherokee ancestry rekindles and reinvents her Native identity by discovering the rhythm and spark of traditionally told stories in the most unusual places in the modern world. Ada Ronner, a librarian at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, …
Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2014
284 kr
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At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as "trouble causers," arrived to …
Claiming Breath
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 1996
173 kr
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Like poets of legend, Diane Glancy has spent much of her life on the road. For years she supported her family by driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools. Claiming Breath is an account of one of those years, what Glancy calls "a winter count of sorts, a calendar, a …
Firesticks
A Collection of Stories
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 1993
335 kr
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Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, Diane Glancy's stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheless concern people who are very real-a color-blind young boy who watches planes in flight and …
Mask Maker
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 2002
335 kr
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In The Mask Maker, Diane Glancy tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle tale about f1esh-and-blood human beings, this enchanting novel shows how one …
Pushing the Bear
After the Trail of Tears
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2009
177 kr
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It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. A quarter of the removed Indian population have died along the way, victims of cold, disease, and despair. Now the Cherokee people confront an unknown future. How will they …
American Gypsy
Six Native American Plays
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2012
256 kr
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In American Gypsy, a collection of six plays, Diane Glancy uses a mélange of voices to invoke the myths and realities of modern Native American life. Glancy intermixes poetry and prose to address themes of gender, generational relationships, acculturation, myth, and tensions between Christianity …
Firesticks
A Collection of Stories
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2022
163 kr
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Incorporating elements of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, Diane Glancy’s stories are lyrical yet down to earth, often tough and gritty. Experimental, sometimes surreal in form, they nevertheless concern people who are very real-a color-blind young boy who watches planes in flight and …
Mask Maker
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2023
220 kr
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In The Mask Maker, Diane Glancy tells the story of Edith Lewis, a recently divorced mixed-blood American Indian, as she travels the state of Oklahoma teaching students the art and custom of mask-making. A complex, subtle tale about flesh-and-blood human beings, this enchanting novel shows how one …
Asylum in the Grasslands
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2007
234 kr
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Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and author of more than thirty books, Diane Glancy has established herself as one of the country's most versatile and prolific writers. Distinguished by her laconic honesty, her unflinching eye, and her skillful articulation of the commonplace, she presents …
Report to the Department of the Interior
Poems
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2015
283 kr
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Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honour traditional ways of life and …
Reason for Crows
A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.In The Reason for Crows, award-winning author Diance Glancy retells the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman who converted to Christianity and later became …
Unpapered
Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging
Av Diane Glancy, Linda Rodriguez
Häftad, 2023
256 kr
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Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations …
One of Us
Av Diane Glancy
E-bok, 2015
488 kr
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Many towns have their murderers, but are they also members of a church, a Boy Scout leader, or president of the congregation? Could they be trusted to bring a covered dish faithfully to church suppers? This novel takes the BTK murders in Wichita, Kansas, as inspiration to question issues of evil. …
Mary Queen of Bees
Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696–1734] Sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, Epworth, England
Av Diane Glancy
E-bok, 2017
197 kr
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Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 of whom survived. Her mother, Susanna Wesley, imposed a …
Mary Queen of Bees
Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696-1734] Sister of John Wesley, Founder of the Methodist Church, Epworth, England
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 2017
43 kr
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Servitude of Love
Av Diane Glancy
E-bok, 2017
386 kr
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Love in one form or another is the commanding force of this new collection of short fiction. The Servitude of Love holds the revelations of love in different manifestations--love of work, love of another, love of journey, love of mission, love of justice, of foolishness, of duty. These thirteen …
Ironic Witness
Av Diane Glancy
E-bok, 2015
419 kr
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A minister''s wife finds herself in hell. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 gives a chilling insight into the afterlife. It is a story that is not often addressed because it makes clear the separation of people upon death. Frank Winscott, a retired minister, works at comparing …
Collector of Bodies
Concern for Syria and the Middle East
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2016
204 kr
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Collector of Bodies
Concern for Syria and the Middle East
Av Diane Glancy
E-bok, 2016
299 kr
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A 1994 trip to Syria and Jordan as an Arts America Speaker for the United States Information Agency began the group of poems for The Collector of Bodies. The manuscript stayed in a file until the Civil War began in Syria, March 18, 2011, the author''s 70th birthday. The poems were retrieved, and …
Collector of Bodies
Concern for Syria and the Middle East
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 2016
405 kr
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Mary Queen of Bees
Mary [Molly] Wesley Whitelamb [1696-1734] Sister of John Wesley, Founder of the Methodist Church, Epworth, England
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2017
164 kr
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No Word for the Sea
A Professor and His Wife Face Alzheimer's
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2017
284 kr
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No Word for the Sea
A Professor and His Wife Face Alzheimer’s
Av Diane Glancy
E-bok, 2017
411 kr
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No Word for the Sea is built on several layers of questioning: What is language? What is memory? Where does the mind go when the circuits shut down? The novel covers seven years in the lives of Solome and Stephen Savard in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen is provost at Cobson College, and Solome has …
No Word for the Sea
A Professor and His Wife Face Alzheimer's
Av Diane Glancy
Inbunden, 2017
487 kr
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