Poetry. Native American Studies. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE is the first collection by M.L. Smoker whose work has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison... read more

Poetry. Native American studies. Written over a period of twelve years, these beautiful poems of Abenaki Heritage invoke the natural world of New England and the poet's meditations upon it. The land and culture Bruchac celebrates is part of his family's continuing legacy... read more

Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. Finally! The second coming of Cedar Sigo's SELECTED WRITINGS in a new expanded edition bound to dig a bi-coastal poetic aqueduct with heartland tricklers. Sigo's work is most aptly compared to plumbing without the pipes: water flows in elegant designs through invisible walls at a touch... read more

Poetry. Native American Studies. "Read this book because it's excellently funny and read this book because it's seriously good" - Lisa Jarnot. "Merry Fortune's poems are sort of broken and beautiful and melodic - she's awkwardly smart. She's sort of like Francois Villon. She's kind of twenty-first century Susie Timmons" - Eileen Myles... read more

Poetry. Native American Studies. Sherman Alexie's poems, fiction, and essays have won him an international following since his first book, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING, was published to great acclaim in 1992. SMOKE SIGNALS, the film he adapted from one of his stories and coproduced, enlarged his audience still further. Alexie's honors include awards from the NEA, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation, and the Washington State Arts Commission, and a citation as One of the 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40 from GRANTA magazine... read more

Poetry. Fiction. Native American Studies. The fiction and poetry gathered in this collection honor the tradition of Native American animal stories, retelling and reshaping these traditions... read more

Poetry. Native American Studies. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON opens with the section "Influences": "where I have been/ most of my lives/ is where I'm going/--Lucille Clifton". The stories and poems of Sherman Alexie, an enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpint, Washington, have appeared widely, in such publications as Caliban, Esquire, The World, Beloit Poetry Journal, Red Dirt, Zyzzyva and Story... read more

Cultural Writing. Gender Studies. WO(MEN) AND BEARS revisits classical debates in women's cultural and Native studies regarding nature and culture. As a mixed-genre anthology--academic and poetic, conversational and critical--the book consists of interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches on a widely-circulated ancient myth, story, history, and sacred law (ayaawux) focused on wo(men) co-habiting with bears where women defy dualistic gender roles and relations and interact with nature in a variety of adaptive or transgressive ways... read more

Poetry. Native American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. This bold new collection by American Book Award-winner Maurice Kenny explores the intersections between life and art. Part one explores the lives of well-known gay artists; part two focuses on Kenny's often difficult relationship with his father... read more

Poetry. Native American Studies. Gay & Lesbian Studies. In conjunction with the publication of CONNOTATIONS, White Pine Press is pleased to release a new edition of American Book Award-winner Maurice Kenny's THE MAMA POEMS, a cycle of poems centered on the life of Kenny's late mother... read more