Introduction : generations and emanations / Dean Rader and Janice Gould
Poems as maps in American Indian women's writing / Janice Gould
Situating American Indian poetry : place, community, and the question of genre / Eric Gary Anderson
Daydreaming primal space : Cherokee aesthetics as habits of being / Marilou Awiakta
Beloved Woman returns : the doubleweaving of homeland and identity in the poetry of Marilou Awiakta / Daniel Heath Justice
The power and presence of native oral storytelling traditions in the poetry of Marilou Awiakta, Kimberly Blaeser, and Marilyn Dumont / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
Ain't seen you since : dissent among female relatives in American Indian women's poetry / Patricia Clark Smith
The epic lyric : genre and contemporary American Indian poetry / Dean Rader
Answering the deer : genocide and continuance in the poetry of American Indian women / Paula Gunn Allen
The style of the times in Paula Gunn Allen's poetry / Elaine A. Jahner
Herbs of healing : American values in American Indian literature / Carter Revard
Carter Revard's angled mirrors / Janet McAdams
"Dawn/is a good word" : naming an emergent motif of contemporary native American poetry / Robert M. Nelson
Call me brother : two-spiritness, the erotic, and mixedblood identity as sites of sovereignty and resistance in Gregory Scofield's poetry / Qwo-Li Driskill
Song/poetry and language
expression and perception / Simon J. Ortiz.