Page 24 RAIN April 1982 Carriers of the Dream Wheel, Contemporary Native American Poetry, edited by Duane Niatum, paperback edition 1981, 300 pp., $9.95 from: Harper & Row 10 East 53rd St. New York, NY 10022 I'm no scholar, but I read a lot. Sometimes I read simply because I love words, the sound and measure of them. The word-love leads me to poetry and I have many favorite poems and poets that 1 return to for the predictable satisfaction they deliver. It's rare that I turn to anthologies for repeated readings. There are a few, but usually they don't balance well and the rhythms are uneven. So, this is a rare book. Even the introduction is a good poem. Maybe it's the storytelling traditions that flavor these poems and nurture these poets. This book reads like, feels like, one spirit motivating many voices. It's quite a find! —Carlotta Collette from: Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story (for Simon Ortiz, July 1973) one year the politicians got fancy at Laguna. They went door to door with hams and turkeys and they gave them to anyone who promised to vote for them, on election day all the people stayed home and ate turkey and laughed. —Leslie Silko Simile What did we say to each other that now we are as the deer who walk in single file with heads high with ears forward with eyes watchful with hooves always placed on firm ground in whose limbs there is latent flight —N. Scott Momaday RAIN 2270 NW Irving, Portland, OR 97210 (503) 227-5110 Non-Profit Oig. U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 1890 Portland, OR STEVEN AMES 3832 SW PATTON RD PORTLAND OR 97221
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