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Studying Native America addresses for the first time in a comprehensive way the place of this critical discipline in the university curriculum.
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Russell Thornton
Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize.
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Presenting a collection of poems, the author covers a variety of places and subjects, including a woman and her child in Thessaloniki, rats in a basement, a BC river ‘grind(ing)…
Russell Thornton writes some of the most skillfully crafted lyrics in Canada. –Chris Banks, winner of the Jack Chalmers Poetry Award
A masterful new collection by Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Russell Thornton.
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A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton.
In Greek Fire, one of the poems in Russell Thornton’s astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through…
A masterful new collection from award-winning poet Russell Thornton.
With intense lyricism, Thornton records his imaginative movement between the element of water, waking to "the aloneness of water," and the…
Offers a study of an American Indian group showing the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. This book discusses…
From poems set in the eastern Mediterranean, with its abiding reverberations of the ancient Greek world, and informed by sacred sites and classical stories, to a series of sonnet responses…
This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish…
This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Professor Thornton argues that…
Distinguished by its lyricism, depth of emotion, its metaphysical bent and the colour and wide range of reference in its imagery, The Fifth Window, opens up new vistas of language…
The widespread Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include ‘the year the stars fell’, the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This…
