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Born in May 9, 1951 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • The Last Song (chapbook; also see below), Puerto Del Sol Press (Las Cruces, NM), 1975.
  • What Moon Drove Me to This? (contains The Last Song), I. Reed Books (New York, NY), 1980.
  • She Had Some Horses, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY), 1983.
  • Secrets from the Center of the World, illustrated by Steven Strom, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1989.
  • In Mad Love and War, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1990.
  • The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, Norton (New York, NY), 1994.
  • A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales, Norton (New York, NY), 2000.
  • How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2001, Norton (New York, NY), 2002.

OTHER

  • (Editor with Gloria Bird) Reinventing the Enemy's Language: North American Native Women's Writing, Norton (New York, NY), 1997.
  • The Good Luck Cat (children's fiction), illustrated by Paul Lee, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2000.

Also author of the film script Origin of Apache Crown Dance, Silver Cloud Video, 1985; coauthor of the film script The Beginning, Native American Broadcasting Consortium; author of television plays, including We Are One, Uhonho, 1984, Maiden of Deception Pass, 1985, I Am Different from My Brother, 1986, and The Runaway, 1986. Contributor to numerous anthologies and to several literary journals, including Conditions, Beloit Poetry Journal, River Styx, Tyuoyi, and Y'Bird.