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Ukp'éel wayak' / Seven Dreams.

2014; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 88; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/wlt.2014.0056

1945-8134

David Shook,

Archaeology and Natural History

reviews is composed of history, science, personal narrative, and song. The collection could be seen as a compilation of songs that serve as a greatest hits album. Many of the poems in the volume appear in earlier collections of Revard’s work. More compellingly, however, this volume of poetry represents a lyrical echo. The strongest moments in the collection are those of borrowing and repetition wherein Revard uses words and rhythms from the past to create contemporary art. Revard’s poems “Driving in Oklahoma” and “A Song That We Still Sing” ask readers to consider how ordinary drives and ceremonial practices might be tied together. Both contain elements of repetition in which animals, spiritual practice, and relationship to the land reoccur over and over in different contexts. If readers are attuned to the return of certain beings and sounds, they might be able to connect literary and tribal histories to daily occurrences in ways that they had not expected . When Revard grounds his work in the histories and lands around Oklahoma, his poetry is resonant and useful for drawing connections between phases of time—such as the past and present—that might not be as distinct as many readers think. The echoes across forms and time do not always work. For instance, Revard pays homage to poems as a number of historical and literary texts. In his attempts to pay homage to everyone from Milton to Shelley, Revard might alienate readers who are not interested in following the trail of references he lays out as he leads his audience through each poem. Ultimately, Revard’s latest collection will appeal to students and teachers of American Indian studies, American history, and poetics. Readers who enjoy American and British literary history should consider adding this text to their personal library. Those who are familiar with Revard will probably enjoy rereading many of these poems as they discover new ones. Those who are hearing his songs and stories for the first time will likely be inspired to listen closely to what he has to say as they follow the echoes of others’ voices, echoes that inspire the songs he keeps alive. Sarah O’Connell University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Feliciano Sánchez Chan. Ukp’éel wayak’ / Seven Dreams. Jonathan Harrington, tr. Cullowhee, North Carolina. New Native Press. 2014. isbn 9781883197317 Like his Isthmus Zapotec contemporaries Victor Terán and Irma Pineda, Yucatec Maya poet Feliciano Sánchez Chan primarily writes contemporary pastoral love lyrics, but often incorporating significantly more traditional mythology than those poets, like Ruperta Bautista, who works in Tsotsil, or Juan Hernández, whose Huasteca Nahuatl poems recount the mythology of corn. In that blending , Sánchez Chan’s poetry is an important bridge between two dominant lyric modes of his generation of indigenous Mexican poets. The book’s title chapter, “Seven Dreams,” is much more focused on Mayan mythology than the latter two chapters , which ground their references to mythology in the contemporary indigenous experience. The latter two contain Sánchez Chan’s strongest poems, with powerful images such as his “village is an old man / squatting on his heels / beneath 90 worldliteraturetoday.org STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND CIRCULATION 1. Publication Title: World Literature Today 2. Publication Number: 060-680 3. Filing Date: September 1, 2014 4. Issue Frequency: Bimonthly 5. Number of Issues Published Annually: Six 6. Annual Subscription Price: $30 Individual, $130 Institution 7. Complete Mailing Address of Known Office of Publication: World Literature Today / University of Oklahoma / 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 / Norman, OK 73019-4033 8. Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters of General Business Office of Publisher: World Literature Today / University of Oklahoma / 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 / Norman, OK 73019-4033 9. Full Names and Complete Mailing Addresses of: Publisher: Robert Con Davis-Undiano / World Literature Today / University of Oklahoma / 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 / Norman, OK 73019-4033. Assistant Director & Editor in Chief: Daniel Simon / World Literature Today / University of Oklahoma / 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 / Norman, OK 73019-4033 10. Owner: University of Oklahoma Board of Regents / 119 Evans Hall / Norman, OK 73019-3074 11. Known Bondholders, Mortgagees, and Other Security Holders: None 12. The purpose, function, and nonprofit status of this organization...