<div>The American Indian author of Black Eagle Child paints &ldquo;a portrait of a writer struggling both to preserve his people&rsquo;s heritage and to turn it into art&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Ray A. Young Bear&rsquo;s work has been called &ldquo;magnificent&rdquo; by the New York Times and &ldquo;a national treasure&rdquo; by the Bloomsbury Review. Dazzlingly original, but with deep roots in his traditional Mesquakie culture, Young Bear is a master wordsmith poised with trickster-like aplomb between the ancient world of his forefathers and the ever-encroaching &ldquo;blurred face of modernity.&rdquo; Remnants of the First Earth continues the story of Edgar Bearchild&mdash;Young Bear&rsquo;s fictionalized alter ego&mdash;which began with Black Eagle Child, a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. Young Bear revisits the Black Eagle Child Settlement and its residents, including Ted Facepaint, Rose Grassleggings, Junior Pipestar, Lorna Bearcap, and Luciano Bearchild. At the center of the novel is a murder investigation involving a powerful shaman holding court at the local Ramada Inn, negligent white cops from nearby Why Cheer, and corrupt tribal authorities. This lyrical narrative swirls through the present and into the mysteries of the age-old stories and myths that still haunt, inform, and enlighten this uniquely American community. &ldquo;Young Bear&rsquo;s prose pulses with lyrical ferocity, blending narrative, verse and tribal myth in a seamless web . . . Young Bear, an acclaimed poet, here emerges as a major Native novelist.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Remnants of the First Earth

<div>The American Book Award&ndash;winning collection from &ldquo;The best poet in Indian Country&rdquo; (Sherman Alexie, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). Hailed by the Bloomsbury Review as &ldquo;the nation&rsquo;s foremost contemporary Native American poet&rdquo; and by Sherman Alexie as &ldquo;the best poet in Indian Country,&rdquo; Ray Young Bear draws on ancient Meskwaki tradition and modern popular culture to create poems that provoke, astound, and heal. This indispensable volume, which contains three previously published collections&mdash;Winter of the Salamander (1979), The Invisible Musician (1990), and The Rock Island Hiking Club (2001)&mdash;as well as Manifestation Wolverine, a brilliant series of new pieces inspired by animistic beliefs, a Lazy-Boy recliner, and the word songs Young Bear sang to his children, is a testament to the singularity of the poet&rsquo;s talent and the astonishing range of his voice.</div>

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Manifestation Wolverine

<div>Mixing prose and poetry, ancient traditions and modern sensibilities, this brilliant, profane, and poignant coming-of-age story is a masterpiece of Native American literature At a Thanksgiving party held in a Bureau of Indian Affairs gymnasium, the elders of the Meskwaki Settlement in central Iowa sip coffee while the teenagers plot their escape. Edgar Bearchild and Ted Facepaint, too broke to join their friends for a night of drinking in a nearby farm town, decide to attend a ceremonial gathering of the Well-Off Man Church, a tribal sect with hallucinogenic practices. After partaking of the congregation&rsquo;s sacred star medicine, Edgar receives a prophetic vision and comes to a newfound understanding of his people&rsquo;s past and present that will ultimately reshape the course of his life. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s, Black Eagle Child is the story of Edgar&rsquo;s passage from boyhood to manhood, from his youthful misadventures with Ted, to his year at prestigious liberal arts college in California, to his return to Iowa and success as a poet. Deftly crossing genre boundaries and weaving together a multitude of tones and images&mdash;from grief to humor, grape Jell-O to supernatural strobe lights&mdash;it is also an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a Native American in the modern world. </div>

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