Kim Shuck

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In this collection of poems, including "Great Indian Urban Poem," "Owl Feathers," and "Longer Incantations for August," Shuck's simultaneously visceral and cerebral lines echo the cadences of our midnight stomp songs where gym lights replace willow arbors. </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Jenny L. Davis (Chickasaw)</div> <div> Henry Roe Cloud Fellow, Yale University</div> <bR> <bR> <div> There is simply no finer poet than the word-beader-warrior, Kim Shuck. She writes with such beauty, defiance, focus and power; this new work pumps the blood and brain in a good way. Her lines linger on me like a fragrance, like lilacs in the spring, wanting more of that … Something always wonderful happens when I read her work, and I hear myself say, "Oh Wow."  <I>Sidewalk NDN</I> is an edgy work, meant to "set a whole new generation ablaze," and this collection is some of her finest master-full writing …</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Trace A. DeMeyer, poetry reviewer for <I>News From Indian Country</I> and author of <I>One Small Sacrifice </I></div> <bR> <div> From the Introduction by Re-Matriation series editor, Susan Deer Cloud</div> <bR> <div> <I>Sidewalk NDN</I> deftly and subtly delivers to its reader what it feels like to "walk in two worlds."  These poems embody the world of the urban NDN still holding fast to remnants of land, freedom and the older ways of being and living as a medicine woman, really.</div> <bR> <div> <I>From the book:</I></div> <div> <B>A Breath Before October</B></div> <bR> <div> There is no rattle in this</div> <div> Heat no dance song it offers to teach me here in the </div> <div> Moment before the lightshed before the</div> <div> Hot tea of sunrise and the</div> <div> Water I want to go to this morning is in the </div> <div> Bathtub that </div> <div> Cool and horrible blue in a pink and blue tiled room one</div> <div> More thing that cannot be touched cannot be</div> <div> Soothed but it </div> <div> Can fill with water less hot than my </div> <div> Grumpy skin flushed with those </div> <div> Random harvest angles that have us all</div> <div> Checking the calendars and declaring the </div> <div> Weather shift the one they've all been </div> <div> Talking about but I want a walk along the</div> <div> Serpent mound a quiet day of </div> <div> Picking out passionate curves in thread and glass I</div> <div> Want squash soup and an evening that is</div> <div> Right for it</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Kim Shuck</B> plays in many different sandboxes, including weaving, beadwork, poetry and general commentary on everything from trees blooming to the sparkle of mica in the pavement.  <I>Smuggling Cherokee</I>, her first solo book, was awarded the Diane Decorah first book award by the Native Writers Circle of the Americas in 2005 and was published by Greenfield Review Press in 2006.  She has been in many anthologies, such as <I>A Bird Black as the Sun </I>and <I>From Turtle Island to Abya Yala</I>. </div> <bR> <div> <I>Sidewalk NDN</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><I> </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>is a 36 page hand-sewn chapbook - $10.00. </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>TO ORDER:</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id11.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U><B>To order through mail click here.  </B></U></A><B>   </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>ON-LINE          </B><B> </B><B>                              </B></div> <bR> <div> From the US      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Sidewalk NDN"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="14-18"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Canada      <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Sidewalk NDN"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="14-18"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="4.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Sidewalk NDN"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="14-18"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="7.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>