Vizenor, Gerald (Robert)

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VIZENOR, Gerald (Robert)

VIZENOR, Gerald (Robert). American, b. 1934. Genres: Novels, Poetry, Anthropology/Ethnology, History, Literary criticism and history, Mythology/ Folklore, Novellas/Short stories, Bibliography, Autobiography/Memoirs, Essays. Career: Professor of American Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Group worker, Ramsey County Corrections Authority, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1957-58; roving group worker, Capital Community Center, St. Paul, 1958; corrections agent, Minnesota Dept. of Corrections, Minnesota State Reformatory, St. Cloud, 1960-61; staff writer, Minneapolis Tribune, 1968-70; teacher trainer, Park Rapids Public Schools, Minnesota, 1971; Instructor, Lake Forest College, IL, and Bemidji State University, MN, 1971- 73; formerly, Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from 1980. Publications: POETRY: Born in the Wind, 1960; The Old Park Sleepers: A Poem, 1961; Two Wings the Butterfly: Haiku Poems in English, 1962; South of the Painted Stone, 1963; Raising the Moon Vines, 1964; 17 Chirps, 1964; (with J. Downes) Slight Abrasions: A Dialogue in Haiku, 1966; Empty Swings, 1967; Matsushima: Pine Islands, 1984; Crane Arise, Haiku, 1999. NOVELS: Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart, 1973, as Bearheart, 1990; Griever: An American Monkey King in China, 1987; The Heirs of Columbus, 1991; Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, 1992; Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel, 1997; Chancers, 2000. SHORT STORIES: Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade, 1978; The Trickster of Liberty, 1988; Landfill Meditations, 1991. NONFICTION: A Selected Bibliography of the Dakota and Ojibway Indians of Minnesota, 1967; Thomas James White Hawk, 1968; Tribal Scenes and Ceremonies, 1976; The People Named the Chippewa, 1984; Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors, 1990; Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors, 1994; Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports, 1990; Postindian Conversations, 2000. COLLECTED WORKS: Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader, 1994. EDITOR: Summer in the Spring: Lyric Poems of the Ojibway, 1965, as Summer in the Spring: Ojibwa Songs and Stories, 1981; Escorts to White Earth, 1868-1968: 100 Year Reservation, 1968; Anishinabe Adisokan: Stories of the Ojibwa, Tales of the People, 1970; The Everlasting Sky, 1972; Anishinabe Nagomon, 1974; Earthdivers, 1981; Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose, 1987; Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, 1989; Native American Literature: An Anthology, 1995. Address: American Studies, 301 Campbell Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

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