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Seven Hands, Seven Hearts: Prose and Poetry » (1st ed)
Authors: Elizabeth Woody, Jane Quick-To-See (Illustrator), Jane (Quick-To-See) Smith (Illustrator), Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
ISBN-13: 9780933377301, ISBN-10: 0933377304
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Eighth Mountain Press
Date Published: September 1994
Edition: 1st ed
Author Biography: Elizabeth Woody
Book Synopsis
Seven Hands, Seven Hearts includes the entirety of Elizabeth Woody's highly acclaimed first book of poems, Hand into Stone - winner of the American Book Award - as well as new poems, stories, and essays. The work is united by common themes: a rootedness in the Northwest landscape, the histories of her ancestors, and the ongoing struggle to define what it means to be a tribal member, an American, and a woman at the end of the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 11 | |
| Buckskin | 21 | |
| Homecooking | 25 | |
| Story Power | 33 | |
| Reminiscent of Salmon Woman | 41 | |
| Water Combined with Throat Singing | 42 | |
| The Bridge | 43 | |
| Horse and Woman | 44 | |
| We Remember Our Relatives | 45 | |
| Weaving | 46 | |
| Shells on Stone | 47 | |
| Longhouse I | 48 | |
| Longhouse II | 49 | |
| Sisters? | 50 | |
| Sisters | 51 | |
| Speelyay Thoughts in Seattle | 52 | |
| Speelyay, Again! | 53 | |
| Coyote Folklore, in Image and Practice | 54 | |
| Distant Cousins | 55 | |
| Deer! | 56 | |
| Chinle Summer | 57 | |
| Unity | 58 | |
| Wyam: Echo of Falling Water | 63 | |
| In Memory of Crossing the Columbia | 70 | |
| Black Night Stones and the Shine of Abalone | 71 | |
| Hand into Stone | 73 | |
| Of Steps to Drowning | 74 | |
| She-Who-Watches, the Names Are Prayer | 76 | |
| The Sense | 78 | |
| Originating Fire | 79 | |
| Black Fear | 80 | |
| Shaker Church Prayer | 82 | |
| Birds in This Woman | 84 | |
| Spider Woman's Coyote Bones | 89 | |
| Scratch Medicine and Tenements | 94 | |
| Siamese Ghosts (The Disturbed Spirits) | 96 | |
| Speaking Hands | 104 | |
| Custer Must Have Learned to Dance | 106 | |
| She Is a Stranger to Intimacy | 107 | |
| A Warrior and the Glass Prisoners | 111 | |
| Cold Blood | 116 | |
| Hand to Hand, the Circles Embrace | 118 | |
| Our Reverence and Difficult Return | 119 | |
| Notes on the Poems | 123 |
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