Blue Horses Rush in: Poems and Stories Volume 34

by Luci Tapahonso

Book Overview

Wrapped in blankets and looking at the stars, a young Navajo girl listened long ago to stories that would guide her for the rest of her life. "Such summer evenings were filled with quiet voices, dogs barking far away, the fire crackling, and often we could hear the faint drums and songs of a ceremony somewhere in the distance", writes Luci Tapahonso in this compelling collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816517282
• ISBN13: 9780816517282
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

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 you like happy endings, family values, and good old-fashioned heartfelt love, this will become your favorite book. It is at once beautiful and familiar -- these are your experiences and emotions as much as the poet's, whether you are a Navajo or not. Don't skip "In Praise of Texas," in which the narrator reflects the thinnest hopes and dreams which live in all of us, and which "blossom without any urging on our part" (13)