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antoinette nora claypoole

 

fast forwad 
2012
 

there is a trail to the sea. sandy has hair like kelp before the chinese grind it up and 
sell it. her feet are bare. by choice. there are nasturtiums between the glow in her cheeks 
and the words she hears. the word spy was deleted from the dictionary just yesterday. 
 
 


 


antionette nora claypoole  As a mother, poet and activist in Indian Country before the deluge, antoinette feels poetry and art revive what customs declares a throwaway. As editor of Wild Embers, a new renegade literary press founded in Taos, New Mexico, antoinette calls the Ashland, Oregon she met in 1982. Home. Both places help antoinette know that old Crazy Horse spin....dreams are where we really live Who Would Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae, a poetic biography about American Indian Movement activist, Anna Mae Aquash (1945-1976) was antoinette's first book (1999, dist. Clear Light Books, Santa Fe, N.M.)