For the White poets who would be Indian Essay

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For the White poets who would be Indian Essay

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In the following interview excerpt, Rose clarifies her intent in "For the White poets who would be Indian."

In his preface to your collected poems —Lost Copper— N. Scott Momaday said that it was a book, "not made up of poems, I think, but of songs." Would you agree with that distinction of Momaday's?

In a subjective sense, yes. I don't think that the poems are literally songs the way that we usually understand the term. But I use them the way that many Indian people traditionally use songs. They, in a sense, mark the boundaries of my life.

So that would be one of the differences between your poetry and traditional English verse.

Yeah, I think so. My perception of them. The way that they function in my life.

Is there any other way in which they're song?

I think oftentimes that audiences feel them that...

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