Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon

by Eric Gansworth

Nickel Eclipse is a merging of personal and cultural history. Structured in part like the alternating colored beads on a wampum belt, patterns emerge from this exploration of contemporary life on an eastern Indian reservation and the sometimes tenuous persistence of a culture after centuries of survival within another, more dominant, culture. The poems, while highly personalized, reflect the tension of speakers surviving within-though never...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870135643
• ISBN13: 9780870135644
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"