Thomas Hubbard

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These poems are a long time coming: part indictment, part elegy, part rant and <I>all </I>truth. They address invasion as infection and possession as foreign to those dispossessed. More importantly, these poems speak to "the resilience of the old ways and of our blood."</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Tiffany Midge, Standing Rock Sioux, is author of <I>Outlaws, Renegades and Saints: Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed </I>(Diane Decorah Poetry Award) and <I>Guiding the Stars to Their Campfire</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Thomas Hubbard's poems evoke the struggle to keep the Old Way alive, despite destruction and seduction by so-called "Mainstream Society." Combative, courageous and compelling, this collection wins its way through to a straightforward optimism … <I>Raining again, but/never enough to erase the invasion/the greed, the lies... nor the certainty/their walls will crumble with time, and/this injured world will heal.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Ralph Salisbury, Cherokee, is author of <I>The Indian Who</I> <I>Bombed Berlin</I> (winner of a Rockefeller Bellagio Award) and <I>Light from</I> <I>a Bullet Hole</I> (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the introduction by Susan Deer Cloud:</div> <bR> <div> Thomas' poetry embodies and explores the conundrum that so many Turtle Island peoples are born into and struggle with every single day and night of their existence.  This is the challenge of "walking in two worlds," the old Indian path and the imposed super highway of the first invaders who remain with us in their current guise of big banks, corporations, and war mongers.  The chapbook's title itself serves as an entryway into what has happened to Indian people, because so many of us are bereft of our original languages.  Thomas sets forth what a theft this has been in his title poem and throughout the book, how speaking and thinking in a foreign language, English, has kidnapped us from our former words that once fashioned our very minds, hearts, dreams and visions.  Our long ago love.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Today begins my explaining </B></div> <bR> <div> Scenes remain from years before </div> <div> my father went to world war two, </div> <bR> <div> To fight for that same flag that</div> <div> has killed so many of our people.</div> <bR> <div> Maybe he figured the other side</div> <div> would have done us even worse.</div> <bR> <div> He aged well and long, and</div> <div> his buddies surrounded him.</div> <bR> <div> Good friends, he and I, we</div> <div> always got along very well.</div> <bR> <div> He showed me what he knew and</div> <div> now, paths stretch far behind me.</div> <bR> <div> So I can say these things, can</div> <div> discuss the old way, tell how it is. </div> <bR> <div> These ideas come from our </div> <div> walking through this curious world.</div> <bR> <div> I pass them on to you, </div> <div> because I'm an old man, and it is time.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Since retirement from teaching in the Tulalip Reservation's Heritage High School, Thomas Hubbard has written essays and interviews and edited for <I>Raven Chronicles </I>and <I>Cartier Street Review </I>magazines, and featured in many Pacific Northwest spoken word venues.  His poems and short stories have appeared in <I>Yellow Medicine Review, Red Ink, </I>and <I>Florida Review, </I>and he reviews books for various publications.  A mixed-blood of Miami, Cherokee and (probably) Irish lineage, Thomas has always been a traveler, beginning in his late teens with hitchhiking adventures all around the USA.  These days he rambles back and forth between the Ozarks and the Pacific Northwest, the country of his heart.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="42dc2f70.jpg" border=0 width="194" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>POEMS IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" ><I> </I></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>is a 40 page hand-sewn chapbook - 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