Hand into Stone: Poems

by Elizabeth Woody

Woody, Elizabeth

47 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

Elizabeth Woody s an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon. She also descends from the Navajo, Wasco, and Yakama peoples.

She was a recipient for the 1990 American Book Award for her book Hand into Stone from the Before Columbus Foundation. In 1993, she also Elizabeth received a "Medicine Pathways for the Future" Fellowship/Kellogg Fellowship from the American Indian Ambassadors Program of the Americans for Indian Opportunity.

She is a recipient of the William Stafford Memorial Award for Poetry from the Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association and was a finalist in the Oregon Book Awards in poetry in 1995.

Reviews

[Marah · Rating 4 out of 5]

if you haven't notice already I am into poetry so alot of the books are of poems or short stories as well.

[Dana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful poetry book, the imagery is gorgeous, concise, and interesting! Ran into this book at the bookstore I work, glad to have had this come in my hands.