Torn Sky: Poems by Debra Nystrom (English) Paperback Book

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Moving, unsentimental portraits of Native Americans and other South Dakotans.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

"Nystrom's gift as a poet is that she doesn't stop looking, and her poems make sure it is all still there for us to see."--Eamon GrennanThe landscape of Torn Sky is South Dakota, a place of extremes, where parched land meets frigid air and exiled Native Americans still struggle to live in peace alongside ranchers. Nystrom's poems weave together the voices of her childhood with ghosts of the last two tumultuous centuries and articulate with such subtle and unsentimental grace that each side is understood.Debra Nystrom was born in Pierre, South Dakota. She is the author of one previous book, A Quarter Turn. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at the University of Virginia.

Author Biography

Nystrom grew up in South Dakota, where she returns each year to family land on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. She has published two previous books of poetry, Torn Sky and A Quarter Turn. Her current work has appeared in Ploughshares, Slate, Agni, Five Points, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly. She teaches at the University of Virginia.

Review

"Debra Nystrom's genius in "Torn Sky is to give us a version of the American West that includes the mythic and the epic, but doesn't exclude the historical and the personal. Intimate, searching, deeply skeptical, these poems are as beautifully written as they are morally challenging and unexpected."-Tom Sleigh...""Torn Sky is haunted by the windy presence of the prairie: light-swept, fierce with bitter histories, an openness both bracing and aching. This is a book of deep conviction, alive with character and incident, richly peopled."-Mark Doty"This is a book so imbedded in the landscape of longing that it flows and echoes like a prairie stream. The life of a young woman growing up in the Dakotas--instructed by the sky, the living ghosts of the Lakota nation, and a straight-talking father who farms the land--is born anew in Nystrom's poems in Cather-like power and unforgettable beauty."-Carol Muske

Long Description

"Nystrom's gift as a poet is that she doesn't stop looking, and her poems make sure it is all still there for us to see."--Eamon GrennanThe landscape of Torn Sky is South Dakota, a place of extremes, where parched land meets frigid air and exiled Native Americans still struggle to live in peace alongside ranchers. Nystrom's poems weave together the voices of her childhood with ghosts of the last two tumultuous centuries and articulate with such subtle and unsentimental grace that each side is understood.Debra Nystrom was born in Pierre, South Dakota. She is the author of one previous book, A Quarter Turn. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at the University of Virginia.

Description for Sales People

* Jacket photograph by David Plowden * Will appeal to those interested in the Native American population of the Dakotas * Long awaited second collection *Author is a native of South Dakota *Great Plains & Native American culture *Great mother/daughter poems

Details ISBN1889330906 Short Title TORN SKY Language English ISBN-10 1889330906 ISBN-13 9781889330907 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Year 2003 Subtitle Poems DOI 10.1604/9781889330907 Imprint Sarabande Books, Incorporated Place of Publication Louisville Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2003-11-20 UK Release Date 2003-11-20 Pages 104 Publisher Sarabande Books, Incorporated Audience General AU Release Date 2003-11-02 Publication Date 2003-12-18 US Release Date 2003-12-18 Author Debra Nystrom Alternative 9781889330891 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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