{"product_id":"itch-like-crazy-volume-51-sun-tracks-0816521778-used","title":"Itch Like Crazy (Volume 51) (Sun Tracks)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0816521778\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rose, Wendy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong Native American writers of mixed-blood heritage, few have expressed their concerns with personal identity with as much passion as Wendy Rose. A mainstay among American Indian poets whose work addresses these issues, she is a writer with whom readers of diverse ethnic backgrounds have consistently identified.In her latest work, Rose returns to these major motifs while exploring a new dimension: using poetry as a tool to delve into the buried secrets of family history-and all of American history as well. Confronting questions of personal history that itch like crazy-the irritations that drive human existence-she acknowledges and pays tribute to her Indian and European ancestors without hiding her anger with American society.Rose's poems are strong political and social statements that have a distinctly narrative flavor. Here are Europeans who first set foot on America's shores while Taino Indians greeted them as if they were visiting neighbors; Hopi and Miwok \"Clan Mothers, grand-daughters, all those the missionaries erased\"; and European forebears who as settlers pushed their way relentlessly west. Through her vivid imagery, she speaks to and for these ancestors with a sense of loss and an itching caused by the biases provoked by ethnic chauvinism.Itch Like Crazy is a finely crafted literary work that is also a manifesto addressing contacts and conflicts in the history of Indian-white relations. By presenting another view of U.S. history and its impact on the Native Americans who are her ancestors, it offers a new appreciation of the issue of \"tribal identity\" that too often faces Native peoples of the Americas-and is too often misunderstood by Euro-American society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67829716255008,"sku":"USED0816521778","price":9.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51E0ON4QwqL.jpg?v=1792228746","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/itch-like-crazy-volume-51-sun-tracks-0816521778-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}