Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890-1999

by Kenneth Lincoln

Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, Kenneth Lincoln tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. He discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, The Path on the Rainbow (1918), which opened Jorge Luis Borges' university surveys of American literature, to thirty-five contemporary Indian poets who speak to, with, and against American mainstream bards...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520218906
• ISBN13: 9780520218901
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"