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Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz reads from the manuscripts of Going for the Rain (1976) and A Good Journey (1977). Many of the poems, as read here, contain more words and phrases in the Acoma language than the published versions.
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Prologue to Going for the Rain
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"The Creation, According to Coyote"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Forming Child"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Four Poems for a Child Son"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Four Poems for a Child Son" (continued)
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"To Insure Survival"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Language"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Time and Motion and Space"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"The Poet"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"My Father's Song"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Poem for Jody About Leaving"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Arrival in Sudden Seaside Fog This Morning"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Many Farms Notes"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"21 August '71 Indian"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Small Things Today"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Busride Conversation"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Portrait of a Poet with a Console TV in Hand"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Surprise"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Without You"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"The Poems I Have Lost"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"A Patience Poem for the Child That is Me"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"The Wisconsin Horse"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"A Barroom Fragment"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Four Years Ago"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Horizons and Rains"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Washyuma Motor Hotel"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"I Told You I Like Indians"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"To and Fro"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Fragment"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Notes on the Steps of the San Diego Bus Depot"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"East of San Diego"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Crow"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Bend in the River"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Fourth: The Rain Falls"
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Section title.
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"For Nanao"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"The Boy and Coyote"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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From "Four Dheetsiyama Poems"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Two Acoma Pictures"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Two Acoma Pictures" (continued)
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"I Know That Feeling"
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Unpublished, uncollected.
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"Telling a Friend"
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Unpublished, uncollected.
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"Curly Mustache, 101-Year-Old Navajo Man"
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Introduced as "Curly Mustache, 100-Years-Old Navajo Man"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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"Why do you write? Who do you write for?"
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From the preface to A Good Journey.
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Ortiz, Simon J. A Good Journey. Tucson: Sun Tracks/The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
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"Like myself, the source of these narratives is my home"
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Ortiz, Simon J. A Good Journey. Tucson: Sun Tracks/The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
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"Like myself, the source of these narratives is my home" (continued)
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Ortiz, Simon J. A Good Journey. Tucson: Sun Tracks/The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
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"And another one"
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Ortiz, Simon J. A Good Journey. Tucson: Sun Tracks/The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
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"Time to Kill in Gallup"
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Ortiz, Simon J. A Good Journey. Tucson: Sun Tracks/The University of Arizona Press, 1977.
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"It Doesn't End, Of Course"
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Ortiz, Simon J. Going for the Rain. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
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