Results for "Glancy, Diane"

A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE, 2021 Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic expedition alone. "This moving retelling of a heroic woman's journey demonstrates that history lives through an... Read More about A Line of Driftwood: The ADA Blackjack Story

In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing DianeGlancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writingsthat considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement, stability, and inner exploration; and the search for home. Psalm to Whom(e) cente... Read More about Psalm to Whom(e)

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 determin... Read More about Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging

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 dia... Read More about Claiming Breath (North American Indian Prose Award)

Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees' resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale o... Read More about Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies #54)

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 imagine... Read More about Firesticks, 5: A Collection of Stories (American Indian and Critical Studies #5)