Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2006
Abstract
The title of this collection of eleven essays comes from Glancy's paraphrase of William Heyen's definition of poetry as "language of things that can't be gotten to. It lives in the in-between places." The title also refers to Glancy's moving in between places on the Great Plains and to her writing as a mixed-blood. Glancy's style is personal, elusive, allusive, parodying, and fragmentary. It's a style that requires patience and an open mind, a style she attributes to "patterns" of the structure of the Cherokee language that remain in her.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:3 (Summer 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.