{"product_id":"cicadas-new-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Cicadas: New \u0026 Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberta Hill Whiteman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Roberta Hill is a poet who understands struggle, and generously imparts her passion for renewal. Her work always stems from the toughness of a compassionate survivor.\"--Louise Erdrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCicadas: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003egathers together seventy-five poems from Roberta Hill's two previous poetery collections, \u003ci\u003eStar Quilt \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePhiladephia Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e, along with a generous selection of new poems, culled from the past thirty years. Roberta's poems are powerful lyrical expressions of love and respect for family, friends, fellow artists with a wide context for contemporary politics especially as protest against imperial governments, class conflicts, and racial injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberta's poems are always informed by her deep knowledge of native culture and respect for the earth and fellow humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou carried the cicada to the alder tree\u003cbr\u003ewhose leafy shadow made the yard an arbor.\u003cbr\u003eAfter you left, his buzz song eased me\u003cbr\u003ethrough lonely afternoons of sun and wind.\u003cbr\u003eDesire changed his skeleton.\u003cbr\u003eDesire--that green shoot in a gut.\u003cbr\u003eThat tendril twining with memory until new life emerges\u003cbr\u003eon the opposite side\u003cbr\u003efrom where we first supposed. He lured his mate\u003cbr\u003eto the arbor. Even after you were gone, \u003cbr\u003eall the years you loved me\u003cbr\u003estill sounded.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberta Hill\u003c\/b\u003e is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Indian Culture and Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Beloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLuna\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Award and a Chancellor's Award from the University of Wisconsin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberta Hill, (b. 1947) an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, is a poet, fiction writer and scholar. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin. Her MFA is from the University of Montana, and her Ph.D. was obtained from the University of Minnesota. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoberta has been an instructor for the Poets-in-the-Schools Program in several places, including Minnesota, Arizona, and Oklahoma. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She serves on the Advisory Board for wicazo sa review. Roberta is currently working on a biography of Dr. L. Rosa Minoka-Hill, her grandmother, the second American Indian woman doctor, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has 3 children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoberta's fiction, poetry and essays have most recently appeared in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Luna and Prairie Schooner. She is currently at work on her first novel, A Century of Sad Madness, a story about trauma and love in the context of ongoing colonzation. She previously published as Roberta Hill Whiteman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoberta has a two poems included in the St. Paul Sculptural Garden, Language of the Land Project, where her \"room\" in the garden contains sight-lines developed with reference to the Native American burial grounds that are visible from the site. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Wisconsin Library Association cited her collection of poetry, Star Quilt (Holy Cow! Press 1984), with an Outstanding Achievement Recognition.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.7 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342723858681,"sku":"9780985981808","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Lo8PQCCWoo9780985981808.webp?v=1769714168","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cicadas-new-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}