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An exuberant collection of poems celebrating art, nature, and humanity. This various and vital poetry collection, in rich language and sharp detail, spans the rural and urban, country and town, and foreign and domestic. Tracing the vagaries of the self, these poems record and transmute biography from an English youth to the trials and challenges of aging in America. Memorable for its exuberant voice and exacting eye, Brian Swann's Imago is awa...

Brian Swann's previous collection, Dogs on the Roof (MadHat Press, 2016), was praised by Jackson Lears for being "venturesome, witty, delightedly understated and frequently compelling, " while Andrei Codrescu, calling it "an elegant suit of a variety of threads, " placed it on his "A-list of the blooming philosophical hybrids of the last decade." The San Antonio Express-News said that it was "a fascinating miscellany ... replete with brilliant...

Gathers stories and songs from thirty-one Native groups in North America. Stories of cosmological origins and transformation, historical events, as well as legendary fables are presented in this book. Trickster figures like Raven, Rabbit, and Coyote figure in several tales as do heroes of local fame such as Tom Laporte of the Maliseets.

Storytelling and singing is a vital part of community life for Native peoples. This book gathers stories and songs from many Native groups in North America - including the Inupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far West, the Catawbas in the humid South, and the Maliseets of the rugged woods of the East.

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Exploring everything from visions, hunches, vibes, astrology, and the occult arts and sciences, to modern physics, geomagnetism, and bio-electricity, Psychic Literacy is renowned artist and remote viewer Ingo Swann's grand overview of human psychic potential.

¿. . . Rich and constantly rewarding book, poems are muscular and masterful . . .¿ ¿ John Koethe

There is a clearing by a certain stonewhere images flow and are worth stopping for. I have stayed there almost all day in silenceuntil night remembered what belonged to it and its shadows started to take back its own.I¿ve found it hard to walk away as starlight infused daisies and the stone itself beganto feel like a star so, although what I have done with my life may not be much, for a whileit seemed to be in line.The poems of In Late Light s...

With Wearing the Morning Star, " Brian Swann presents a collection of more than one hundred Native American songs that celebrate the rich and vibrant oral traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America. These are songs of the earth and the sky, songs of mourning and of love, parts of ceremonies and rites and rituals. Some have familiar themes, others illuminate the complexities and differences of the Native cultures. The collection incl...

Brian Swann is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the author and editor of many books, including Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2004), Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2005), and Coming to Light: Contempo...

I Tell You Now" is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and updated biographical sketches for each writer.

Brian Swann is a professor of English at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. His many publications include Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America and Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems, both available in Bison Books editions.¿Contributors: John Bierhorst, Julie Brittain, Lynn Burley, Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, William M. Clements, Nora ...

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A brilliant display of the amazing range and depth of Native American poetic traditions and a stunning revelation that poetry really is a ubiquitous art--A triumphant work.'--Paul G. Zolbrod, North Dakota Review

A comprehensive collection of Native American stories told by Algonquian speakers in the United States and Canada.

Wonderful collection of authentic traditional songs and contemporary Indian verse composed by Seminole, Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Arapaho, Paiute, Nootka, other Indian writers and poets. Topics include nature's beauty and rhythms, themes of tradition and continuity, the Indian in contemporary society, much more.

The poems that make up Brian Swann's rich and constantly rewarding book Snow House are muscular and masterful. He has a marvelous ear and the ability to write poems that move insistently forward to a lovely and offhand resolution. The long and sinuous sentences that make up this collection range over the natural world, memories, and myths -- and, like 'a kind of semiotic stuntman, ' Swann merges these subjects with the poems ostensibly describ...

In his first fiction collection in many years, Swann has widened his scope to include "short fiction, longer fiction, non-fiction, prose-poems, memoirs, essays etc., " which Harold Jaffe has called "succinct and precisely refined by a poet of a high order writing nuanced prose. One has to read closely and more than once to get the meaning and feel the rhythms, " and Andrei Codrescu has said that "Brian Swann has tailored an elegant suit of a v...

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Winner of the 2015 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Dorianne Laux.