Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880

by Renny Golden

Book Overview

In narrative poems that take us back to New Mexico during the nineteenth century, Renny Golden resurrects the spirits of native people and of those who came West. To read these poems is to hear the voices of Padre Mart nez and Bishop Lamy, Geronimo and General Crook, Billy the Kid and Sister Blandina.

Blood Desert is history that breaks into song, and readers are drawn into a chorus of voices that have gone unheard--women, indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826349617
• ISBN13: 9780826349613
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.4"