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Language
English
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Walking the Rez Road contains forty short stories and poems featuring Luke Warmwater as a central character. Luke is a Vietnam veteran who has survived the war but is having "trouble/surviving the peace" on a reservation where everyone is broke and where the tribal government seems to work against the interests of the reservation folk. Throughout Walking the Rez Road, it is humor that holds the people and their community together.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Contains a collection of thirty-six essays, poems, and verse from Minneapolis writers of color, exploring their experiences with family, economic insecurity, racism, and the tumultuous events of 2020.
Physical Desc
xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Familiar traditions echo across the years in funny, poignant, and surprising ways: a family welcomes a Swedish traveler to their cozy sod house on the prairie; a schoolgirl is frightened by her role in the spotlight for the annual pagaent; a stranger makes Christmas possible for a family after the father's untimely death in the 1930s; a Civil War drummer boy prepares for a makeshift holiday while on duty with the First Minnesota. These stories and...
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rich Minnesota literary tradition is brought into the spotlight in this groundbreaking collection of incisive prose and powerful poetry by forty-three black writers who educate, inspire, and reveal the unabashed truth. Historically significant figures tell their stories, demonstrating how much and how little conditions have changed: Gordon Parks hitchhikes to Bemidji, Taylor Gordon describes his first day as a chauffeur in St. Paul, and Nellie...
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 217 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Since its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices Reading Series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty years, the series has become a national model and one of Minnesota's most important literary institutions. It is reputed to be the longest-running curated queer reading series in the country. In this volume, series curators John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins...