I'm going to skip around in this as I go along.
"Carriers of the Dream Wheel" is another recent poem
also in this general category of things
which reflect Indian oral tradition in which I'm
particularly interested.
Harper and Row is a published-- will publish
this collection of poems.
And that house has taken on a program for the publication
of American Indian writing of which this book will not
be a part by the way.
But they have now published three things, I think,
in that program including "Seven Arrows" which some of you
know, "Ascending Red Cedar Moon",
which is a collection of Duane Needham's poems,
and recently a novel by James Welch.
I think that's just now come out.
The fourth book in the program will be an anthology
of contemporary Indian poetry.
And I will have some selections in it.
And I think the title of the book
is to be "Carriers of the Dream Wheel".
"This is the wheel of dreams, which
is carried on their voices by means of which their voices
turn and center upon being.
It encircles the First World, this powerful wheel.
They shape their songs upon the wheel
and spin the names of the Earth and sky.
The Aboriginal names.
They are old men or men who are old in their voices.
And they carry the wheel among the camps saying, come, come,
let us tell the old stories.
Let us sing the sacred songs."