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    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem"
    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem"
    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem"
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    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem"

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    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781535845939
    A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem"

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      A Study Guide for Leslie Marmon Silko's "Love Poem" - Gale

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      Love Poem

      Leslie Marmon Silko

      1974

      Introduction

      Leslie Marmon Silko wrote Love Poem in 1972, while teaching at the Navajo Community College (later Diné College) in Chinle, Arizona. It seemingly describes the meeting of a woman with a man on the sand dunes and associates their act of love with the coming of the rains. The poem is simple, but read in light of Indian lore and point of view, it is more than it seems. The woman, the man, the sand, the grasses, the toads, and the rain are not just coincidentally together, as in a typical poem in Anglo Western culture that concerns associations with landscape or memory. The Indian speaker's memory is larger. It includes her people, their stories, and Mother Earth. The speaker fuses with the landscape, so one might ask, Is the woman a woman, a goddess, or the earth itself?

      The poem is best read in its printed form in one of the many anthologies in which Silko includes visual clues, such as line spaces and white space introducing silent pauses. She attempts to render the poem as oral literature by inserting strong beats and slow, quiet delivery, as in a ceremony. Read aloud, the poem takes on a larger context in which the grasses, rains, toads, and earth are present as beings and participants in the lovemaking. The significance of Native American poetry comes to the heart, intuition, and emotions in a quiet recognition that places the audience in the ceremony.

      Love Poem was collected in Laguna Woman: Poems (1974). It is available in Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans (2012), edited by Kenneth Rosen.

      Author Biography

      Silko was born to Leland Howard Marmon and Mary Virginia Leslie Marmon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 5, 1948. She lived with her parents and younger sisters, Mimi and Wendy, on the Laguna Pueblo reservation near the San José River, where the Marmons had lived for four generations.

      Silko's family was of mixed heritage—mainly Laguna but also Mexican and white. As such, they were not allowed to fully

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