Awards Winner (2010) - WILLA Literary Award - (Poetry) Winner (2010) - Oklahoma Book Award - (Poetry) Contributor(s):Author: Jeanetta Calhoun Mish Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a formidable critical vocabulary.
She writes in a language of solidarity, affirmation, and love.
The story of the daughter who left home, traveled the country, and returned to do her family proud is still worth telling: add to that the heartbreak, lustiness, traditional wisdom, Okie determination, and Indian legacy of these poems and you have quite a bundle.
The historic family photographs are breathtaking in their own right: beyond any job of archaeology, they speak the world they portray.
West End Press Work is love made visible: collected family photographs and poetry, paperback/jeanetta calhoun mish
