The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition (Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics)

First published almost fifty years ago and long out of print, The Shoshoneans is a classic American travelogue about the Great Basin and Plateau region and the people who inhabit it, never before—or since—documented in such striking and memorable fashion. Neither a book of journalism nor a work of poetry, this powerful collaboration represents the wild wandering of a white poet and black photographer in Civil Rights era (also Vietnam War era) America through a part of the indigenous West that had resisted prior incursions. The expanded edition offers a wealth of supplemental material, much of it archival, which includes poetry, correspondence, the lecture “The Poet, the People, the Spirit,” and the essay “Ed Dorn in Santa Fe.” ""A path-breaking photo narrative of Dorn and African-American photographer Leroy Lucas's mid-1960s travels through Shoshoni Indian country (Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah) to paint a stark tableau of modern Native life"-- Provided by publisher ENGLISH DESCRIPTION: "In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland"--Provided by publisher DESCRIPCIÓN EN ESPAÑOL: "En esta colección de cuentos bilingües sobre el Puerco Valle de Río, donde Nasario García creció, él comparte las tradiciones, los mitos y las historias de su tierra natal."