Combing the Snakes from His Hair (American Indian Studies) ebook

by James Thomas Stevens

Combing the Snakes from . .has been added to your Cart. James Thomas Stevens is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe. James briefly attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and Brooklyn College

Combing the Snakes from . James briefly attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and Brooklyn College. He finished his undergraduate schooling at the Institute of American Indian Arts, with an AFA in Creative Writing. While attending IAIA, he was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Scholarship to attend the Naropa Institute Summer Writing Program and studied under, Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Anselm Hollo.

James Thomas Stevens (born 1966) is an American poet and academic. He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. James Thomas Stevens was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and his Mohawk name is Aronhiótas. His father was a Welsh-American and his mother is Mohawk. In 1993 Stevens earned his MFA in writing from Brown University Graduate Writing Program, where he had a full fellowship

James Thomas Stevens. Similarly, during the writing of these poems, Stevens experienced a healin The title, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, alludes to an Iroquois story of healing.

James Thomas Stevens. The title, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, alludes to an Iroquois story of healing. Atatarho, the Onondaga leader, had a crooked body and a head covered with snakes.

James Thomas Stevens, 1966, born in Niagara Falls, New York Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Michigan State University Press. Tokinish, First Intensity Press, New York, 1994.

James Thomas Stevens, 1966, born in Niagara Falls, New York. Stevens is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. An Associate Professor in the English Department of SUNY Fredonia and the Director of American Indian Studies. He received the Creative Writing Award at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1991, and was a Witter-Bynner Foundation Poetry Grant recipient in 1993. While in college, he received the Gerald Red Elk Scholarship in 1990 and a Full Academic Scholarship at Brown University in 1991. Combing the Snakes from His Hair, Michigan State University Press.

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The title, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, alludes to an Iroquois story of healing. The collection, written between 1993 and 1999, is comprised of five sections. The opening section, written as a way to explore new natural surroundings, is accompanied by the author's drawings of prairie flora. Similarly, during the writing of these poems, Stevens experienced a healing, a setting straight of his life and a setting straight of the record.

Poet James Thomas Stevens, a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Tribe, was born in Niagara Falls, New York. Stevens’s poetry collections include A Bridge Dead in the Water (2007), Combing the Snakes from His Hair (2002), and Tokinish (1993). His Mohawk name, under which he sometimes publishes, is Aronhiótas. As an undergraduate he studied at the School of Visual Arts, Brooklyn College, and eventually at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he earned an AFA in creative writing. He co-authored Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (2006), a collaborative poetry and translation project, with Caroline Sinavaiana. Combing the Snakes from His Hair: Poems. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2002. He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation. Stevens, whose Mohawk name is Aronhiótas, was born in Niagara Falls, New York. He formerly taught at Haskell Indian Nations University and remains a vibrant member of the Native community as well as a leading young American poet. Stevens was finalist for the National Poetry Series Award in 2005, and was nominated for a Before Columbus/American Book Award, 2003.

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The title, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, alludes to an Iroquois story of healing. Atatarho, the Onondaga leader, had a crooked body and a head covered with snakes. In order to achieve peace, Atatarho had to be healed: his mind straightened, his body straightened, the snakes combed from his hair. Similarly, during the writing of these poems, Stevens experienced a healing, a setting straight of his life and a setting straight of the record. The collection, written between 1993 and 1999, is comprised of five sections. The opening section, written as a way to explore new natural surroundings, is accompanied by the author's drawings of prairie flora. The second section is a series of love poems. The third section examines the relationship between European music and Native American music and observes that both should be viewed equally as expressive of each culture. And the fourth section consists of short poems―translations, if you will―of Iroquois stories and songs. The final section consists of a long poem studying the effects of colonization coupled with an emotional contemplation of nature and one's place within it. It is concerned with language―who controls it, who possesses it, and how it is used by the colonizer to erase indigenous cultures.