books by Luci Tapahonso (dahataat alphabet stories)

books by Luci Tapahonso

books:

Saanii Dahataat: The Women Are Singing : Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks, Vol 23)

1 review
Luci Tapahonso

University of Arizona Press, 1993

A journey of love...
Luci Tapahonso's voice is one of the most beautiful in contemporary Native American literature. Her poetry usually revolves around family, community, interpersonal relationships -- those things which my dear uncle says are the only things that really matter in this life anyway. When reading this volume, you will get the feeling that you are sitting at the kitchen table with Luci, her family and ...

Navajo ABC: A Dine Alphabet Book

1 review
Luci Tapahonso, Eleanor Schick

Topeka Bindery, 1999

Splendid introduction to Navajo culture and language
This alphabet book is an authentic and lovely multicultural teaching tool as well as an enjoyable and well-illustrated picture book.

Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography

4 reviews
Left Handed

Bison Books, 1967

Authentic and fun.
This book remains solidly in my memory though I read it over 30 years ago. As a child I spent some years on the Navajo Nation - my parents were teachers. This book brought back all my memories of the cadence of the language, of the passing of the seasons, of the herding of sheep, of sustaining a quintessentially "American" way of life.

A Breeze Swept Through: Poetry

1 review
Luci Tapahonso

West End Press, 1987

Wonderful evocation of Rez life today in the Navajo Nation
If you are missing the taste of dust and sagebrush or want to here people talking on the rez or see life here made beautiful like a ceremony would do-then read this book. It's funny and makes voices ring in your head.I especialy liked "a descreet conversation" and"raisin eyes" and"Yaadi' La'". If you have never been here it will take you there. Includes some parts of peoms in Navajo. Sa ah ...

The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Robert Frost Place

2 reviews
David Graham, John Engels, ...

Cavankerry, 2000

A remarkable anthology of twenty-four poets
The Franconia, New Hampshire, farm of the American poet Robert Frost was turned into a museum and center for poetry and the arts in 1976. From that time, "The Frost Place" has been annual event wherein an emerging poet has been invited to spend the summer living in the house where Frost once lived and wrote some of his greatest poetry. The Breath Of Parted Lips: Voices From The Robert Frost ...

Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks , Vol 34)

1 review
Luci Tapahonso

University of Arizona Press, 1997

Beautiful and Familiar
Luci Tapahonso delivers another beautiful collection of poems and stories centered around her Navajo culture. Like most of her works, her emphasis is on family and community, and on the ties that bind us invisibly and lovingly to each other and to our homeland. The stories and poems are at times touching and funny, revealing the human being behind the sorrows and joys of everyday living. If ...

Blue Horses Rush in **ISBN: 9780816517282**
Luci Tapahonso

Univ of Arizona Pr, 1997

Songs of Shiprock Fair

1 review
Luci Tapahonso

Kiva Publishing, 1999

Visual delight
Very nice use of color to express the delight of the Northern Navajo Fair. Lucy text is poetic using all aspect of the fair.