Among the Dog-Eaters: Poems. (book reviews)

Elegy is such personal business don't want to say what I mean and I don't mean to say what I want. (p. 31)

All there is between a poet and a reader is words. If the poet disavows language, meaning disintegrates. But assuming that the sentiment is merely stance, let me ask tougher questions: What can a New England wasicu professor understand about a Palute teaching composition at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota? What critical perspective should be applied to a text that props up sagging language with automatic references to genocide?

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