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

by Matthew Hofer (Editor), Matthew Hofer (Editor), Edward Dorn (Author), Leroy Lucas (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2013

  $55.62

  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.