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Indians in the Woods

Janet Lewis was an American poet and novelist who studied at the University of Chicago. The Indians in the Woods – ‘Imagistic in technique’, as the poet Helen Pinkerton declared – was her first collection of poetry and took as its subject her interest in indigenous peoples and cultures. It was published by Monroe Wheeler as the first book in the Manikin series. - Summary by Newgatenovelist (0 hr 12 min)

Chapters

The Indians in the Woods

1:03

The Wife of Manibozho Sings

0:46

The Grandmother Remembers

0:43

Nightfall Among Poplars

0:37

A Song for Following Gulls

0:48

The Old Woman Alone

0:45

Manibush and the Grandmother

0:48

He Goes Away Again

0:45

Like Summer Hay

0:47

Anishinabeg in the Cranberry Swamp

1:06

One Sits in the Woods

0:46

The Exodus at Evening

0:38

The Village

0:50

The Rocky Islands

0:39

The Threshing Wind

1:05