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Fire power

Chrystos 1946- (Author).

Summary: Telling the truth is powerful medicine. It is a fire that lights the way for others. When we speak our "Fire Power, " we join a long & honored line of warriors against injustice. Each of us is born with innate power & purpose, a sacred direction for which we have been created. Our task is to find the place where we belong & do our work there.

Record details

  • ISBN: 088974047X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 131 pages.
    131 p. ; 23 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Peter Gang Publishers, 1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Poems.
Formatted Contents Note: Going Into the Prison -- You Are Not Here -- ITCOTU -- Bitter as the Pockmarked Streets -- While There's Still -- Man Who Had a Lobotomy -- Unsettling Poetry -- When She -- Ground Zero -- Pink Snow -- In Oklahoma -- Rush Hour -- One Learns the Ceiling -- Breathlessly -- Roma Say -- Sometimes Sitting in the Airport -- Here's the Ruthless Edge -- Down Under the Taxi Yellow -- I've Done the Time -- Hope Haiku -- Mr. Wind Dancer -- What Kills Me -- Your Beauty -- Hell Calls Me Up -- Riding Up the Escalator -- Late Breakfast -- Volunteers of America for God & Country Thrift Store -- Parsing Our Sentence -- Hissing He Called Me a Witch -- Your Hand the Hard Silk -- Judas Hole -- She Says My Dependency Needs -- In the Morning I Comb -- My Father Died at Nine -- Rude as 2:29 A.M. -- I Fly to You -- Sometimes I Can't Stand to Look -- There's a Razor -- Folded Carefully -- Gazing Out the Kitchen Window -- Worrying About How to Pay All My Bills -- In the Land of the Free -- Went Out -- His Beautiful Full-Blood Face -- I Lift the Pearl -- Looks Like I Have That White Fang #2 -- This Whale Card -- Your Gentleness Sweeps -- Night Watch Me Closely -- Heaven Hill -- Simplicity -- This Weekend Butch -- Looking Through a Picture -- When You Were Four -- Marti's Poem -- At Another Writers' Conference -- Rant in the Bloody Face of It -- For the Trees -- Dance for Me -- I Was Falling Wet Red -- Why Indian Unemployment is So High -- She Didn't Want -- Bete Noire Mama -- Riding in Your Sidekick -- Nightmare I Turn You -- Corrugated -- Valentine -- I Have Three Names -- Cherishing My Heart -- For Stephen -- My Nickname is Miz FireEngine -- Gwennie -- I Call -- In the Ferry Ladies' Room -- I Scar Myself -- Only a Small Patch of Her Hair -- Holiday -- Back at the Ugly Motel -- Soap Bubbles -- Stan Berg -- Correspondence with Troubled Souls Welcomed -- Crazy Horse -- Honor Dance for the Four Winds -- Back Road -- Stars -- Gathering Words.
Subject: First Nations authors.
Lesbians' writings, American
Genre: Lesbian poetry.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Nicola Valley Institute of Technology.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Merritt Campus PS3553 H57 F57 1995 (Text) 107922 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -
Vancouver Campus PS3553 H57 F57 1995 (Text) 223415 Regular Collection Volume hold Available -

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