My Intro to Literature class explored how a disconnect from nature leads to existential anguish while opening themselves up to nature provides spiritual nourishment.
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Tag Archives: Leslie Marmon Silko
Black Friday: Don’t Just Shop
Black Friday’s shopping frenzy can prompt us to forget the spiritual origins of gift-giving. Leslie Marmon Silko helps us see beyond the glitter.
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Climate Change: Signs of Witchery
Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko warns of ecological disaster if we don’t change our relationship to the earth.
Silko Foretells the “Brown Surge” North
Silko’s “Almanac of the Dead” foretells the “brown surge” of refugees crossing into the United States.
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Beowulf Blog, 5 Years Old Today
Today is the five-year anniversary of this blog. I can’t quite believe that, in that time, I’ve written close to 1700 posts and probably over a million words. I have never had so much fun writing. I have particularly enjoyed my interactions with readers. Each month during the school year, around 10,000 different individuals visit […]
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Poetic Guides through Cultural Devastation
Indian poets are necessary to keep cultural identity alive and to forge new paths in a white world.
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Drought and the Human War on Nature
Pueblo novelistLeslie Marmon Silko finds a combination of spiritual, psychological and economic explanations for drought.
Dostoevsky and the Arizona Shootings
When I posted, on Saturday morning, my blog entry for Sunday, I little realized that I would be turning for help later in the day to the work I was discussing. Doestoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov is guiding my response to the horrific shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Judge John Ball, and 16 others, including a child. […]
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Are Dystopian Novels Useful?
The new Arizona immigration law, which authorizes police to engage in racial profiling (even while claiming not to), has me thinking back to Almanac of the Dead, a 1991 novel by Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko. This imaginary recreation of a 21st-century future predicted this would happen. I don’t like Almanac the way I like Silko’s […]
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