Three mountain lion poems see the animal judging us for what we are doing to the environment.
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Tag Archives: Leslie Marmon Silko
Literature, the Best Medicine
A Guardian article is filled with instances of literature alleviating the suffering of patients suffering from mental illness.
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Columbus from the Natives’ Viewpoint
For an Indian perspective on Christopher Columbus, here’s Laguna Pueblo author Silko.
Haaland and Silko’s Laguna Pueblo Vision
The new Secretary of the Interior comes from the same tribe as novelist Leslie Marmon Silko and appears to hold the same view of the earth.
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The World Is a Dead Thing for Them
Wednesday In recent years, conservatives have at least paid lip service to protecting the environment—after all, isn’t conservatism about conserving?—and Richard Nixon even signed the Endangered Species Act. Now, however, it appears that the Trump administration is unashamedly bent on squeezing every red cent it can out of the earth, consequences for future generations be […]
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Ten Years of Literary Blogging
Friday Unreal though it seems to me, tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of this blog. To mark the occasion, I scrolled back through the archives to see how it has evolved over the course of the decade. Although there have been a few changes (more on those in a moment), for the most part it […]
Light & Dark Wrestle for America’s Soul
An image of darkness and light grappling for ascendency in Silko’s “Ceremony” sums up my view of America at the moment.
Climate Change, a Witch’s Curse
Leslie Marmon Silko has an account of ecological disaster in her novel “Ceremony” (also “Almanac of the Dead” that is only too relevant.