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James Thomas Stevens staple-bound 28pp. $9.00 
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Like his other books, James Thomas Stevens explores being Native American in a world divorced from the worldview and values of his
people, the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe. Winner of a 2000 Whiting Award, among others, Stevens writes with a sense of flair and ease that feels as soothing as a summer breeze, expect that his words can be a sharp as rosethorns. In The Mutual Life, Stevens brings together the structure of a 1901 Mutual Life insurance manual with observations and remarks uniquely his own. A marvelous blend of visual and text. A true find.
James Thomas Stevens , an Associate Professor in the English Department of SUNY Fredonia and the Director of American Indian Studies, is the author of five books of poetry. Tokinish, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, dis(Orient), Mohawk/Samoa Transmigrations, and A Bridge Dead in the Water. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa and holds an MFA from Brown University. Currently he lives in Dunkirk, NY. EARACHE Tenderness, a dangerous smoking signal behind the ear of serious mischief in your under/lying structure. You speak or don't. Hand signals. Sign language. A nipple between thumb & forefinger. Linen scrap in laudanum cut into bits place in the bowl of a tobacco pipe light it cover it insert the stem (mouthpiece) so as not to hurt into the ear apply the lips to the bowl blowing smoke of burning opium inside the ear. |