Sioux Dog Dance: Shunk Ah Weh

by Red Hawk

This is such a strong book, written in a strong plain style. Red Hawk is like Whitman because he can contain multitudes and yet he is always so authentically himself. Behind all these [poems] there is always one single simple thing which is Red Hawk's own voice. Haunting and stark, ironic and spare. "These poems are desperately important to us all today because Red Hawk has that rarest of all virtues - a sense of civilization, something most of us have forgotten all about. Behind each of these miraculously crafted poems, Red _ Hawk speaks of the wise silence and the raw courage -J51) and the animal honesty and the elemental pride we will all be needing if we are to survive on this god-forsaken planet as free men and women." —William Packard, editor, New York Quarterly

Genres: Poetry

85 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Red Hawk was the Hodder Fellow at Princeton University (1992-93) and currently a full professor at U. of Arkansas, Monticello. Author of 5 collections of poetry, he has been published in The Atlantic, Poetry, and Kenyon Review, and others journals. Red Hawk has given readings with Allen Ginsberg, Rita Dove, Miller Williams, Tess Gallagher, and Coleman Barks, and more than 70 solo-readings in the U.S. He has practiced self-observation for over 30 years, under the guidance of the Gurdjieff Society of Arkansasa, meditation master Osho Rajneesh, and spiritual teacher, Lee Lozowick.