Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku

Favor of Crows: New and Collected HaikuFavor of Crows is a collection of new and previously published original haiku poems over the past forty years. Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry. In the introductory essay the author compares the imagistic poise of haiku with the early dream songs of the Anishinaabe, or Chippewa. Vizenor concentrates on these two artistic traditions, and by intuition he creates a union of vision, perception, and natural motion in

and sprawling prose series

Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children's picture story

abject poverty

Erdrich sometimes imagines what ancient bones would say if they could speak

Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

In Dwellings

Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian woman

Men communicate through beatings

In exquisitely lyrical prose

Foreword by Louise Erdrich

Join Gidjie as she embarks on a life-changing journey to uncover the whereabouts of her missing wolf aunt

each book also offers four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various aspects of Native culture