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Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp text throughout. Excellent interviews with a fine selection of writers -- Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich and Michal Dorris, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, M. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko and others. With photographs of each author.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition color illustrated softcover wraps. Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Selected Bibliography and Photo Credits. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "An excellent introduction to the creative genius of contemporary Native American artists . [It] makes for fine reading on several levels: biography, history, literature, and mythology." - Library Journal. "A volume that delights and instructs." - World Literature Today. "Readers on all levels should learn from Winged Words to avoid stereotypes of what an Indian, and an Indian author, is supposed to be." - Choice. "In Winged Words Lazura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender, and the relations between Indian writers and non-Indian readers and critics, and between writers and anthropologists and historians. In exploring a wide range of topics, each writer arives at his or her own moment of truth." - from the rear outer cover.

First Edition. Softcover issue, with cloth issue released the same year. Octavo (20.5cm); orange paper wrappers; 142pp. Signed by author on title page. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Collection explores Harjo's poetry with interviews focused on Native American and Anglo civilizations. Interviews include Joseph Bruchac, Helen Jaskoski, and Angels Carabi. [86033]. Signed.