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9780931122934 Academic Inspection Copy

No Parole Today

  • ISBN-13: 9780931122934
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By Laura Tohe
  • Price: AUD $29.99
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  • Local release date: 30/03/2000
  • Format: Hardback 64 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This first collection, in prose memoir and poetry, of the work of a Navajo poet and teacher describes attending a government school for Indian children and the challenge it presented to her socially, culturally, and expressively. Laura Tohe says this of her experience: "I was born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, and raised on the Dine (Navajo) Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. I grew up speaking Dine as my primary language. For a while we lived near Coyote Canyon with my grandparents while my parents operated the Tohe Coal Mine, a family business. After the mine closed, my mother moved us to Crystal, New Mexico, where she worked at the boarding school. I grew up without television in the beautiful Chuska Mountains, where only a dirt road connected us to the rest of the world. "While growing up I heard stories all around me. As we drove down the dusty reservation road, my mother told many Dine stories. I liked to listen to her and Grandma gossip. Sometimes she would catch me eavesdropping and make me leave. My first publication originates from a story given to my mother by her great-grandmother."
"No Parole Today" is poetry from the heartpoetry that reveals Tohes inner self. . . . Her work reveals a deep, intense pain in the heart and an unnecessary hurt caused by the greed of trespassers. ""No Parole Today is poetry from the heart--poetry that reveals Tohe's inner self. . . . Her work reveals a deep, intense pain in the heart and an unnecessary hurt caused by the greed of trespassers."
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