Shadow Country

by Paula Gunn Allen

Very good used condition. Some signs of storage.

Genres: Poetry

149 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1982

About the author

Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.

Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Of mixed Laguna, Sioux, Scottish, and Lebanese-American descent, Allen always identified most closely with the people among whom she spent her childhood and upbringing.

Having obtained a BA and MFA from the University of Oregon, Allen gained her PhD at the University of New Mexico, where she taught and where she began her research into various tribal religions.

Reviews

[Casey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I struggled with some of these, mostly when the imagery was so vibrant it drowned out the poem's voice leaving me grasping after smoke and ash. This isn't a negative, but I found myself more often than not wishing to feel a bit more grounded. I feel like Gunn was pointing at things, important things, but things I couldn't quite see.

These poems (in no particular order) -
* Solstice June 75
* Winter's End
* Woman's Place
* Woman Work
* Los Angeles 1970
* Relations
* American Apocalypse