Song of the Oktahutche: Collected Poems

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-12-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Summary

Muscogee (Creek) writer and humorist Alexander Posey (18731908) lived most of his short but productive life in the Muscogee Nation, in what is now Oklahoma. He was an influential political spokesperson, an advocate for improving conditions in Indian Territory, and one of the most prominent American Indian literary figures of his era. One of Posey's dearest subjects was the Oktahutche River, which he so loved that he gave it voice in his poem, "Song of the Oktahutche." His poetry, drawing from Romantic European and Euro-American influences such as Robert Burns and John Greenleaf Whittier, became a sort of Indian Territory pastoral in which the Greek nymph Echo shares a river with Stechupco, the Tall Man spirit of the Muscogees. Song of the Oktahutchecollects for the first time all of Posey's poetry, which has until now been scattered in various rare volumes, either unpublished or replete with textual errors. His highly regarded poems constitute the largest body of Native poetry from the turn of the twentieth century. Matthew Wynn Sivils draws on extensive archival research to produce a complete, accurate, and meticulously annotated edition of Posey's poetry that will further enrich and personalize the legacy of this remarkable Native author.

Author Biography

Matthew Wynn Sivils is an assistant professor of English at Iowa State University. He is the editor of Alexander Posey's Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions (Nebraska 2005).

Table of Contents

A Note on the Editing of these Texts
Introduction
Poems: 1891; 1892
Circa 1893
Undated Poems Written Between October 1891 and the Summer of 1894; 1894; 1895; 1896
Four Undated Poems Written Between December 1895 and December 1897; 1897
Undated Poems Written Between Late December 1897 and October 1898; 1898
Poems From an Undated Ledger Compiled Between Late 1898 and Early 1899
Undated Poems Written Between the Fall of 1899 and June 1900; 1899; 1900
A Poem Written Between June 1900 and Spring 1901; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908
Poems of Uncertain Date
Bibliography
Contents of an Undated A Ledger of Poems
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