A Line of Driftwood: The ADA Blackjack Story

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Price
$16.00  $14.88
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Publish Date
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.43 X 8.11 X 0.47 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781933527215

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About the Author

Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her works have won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, a Juniper Prize for Poetry, and an American Book Award. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels. Her 2020 work, Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job continues and deepens a lifelong exploration of the religious and cultural dimensions of identity.

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Praise for A Line of Driftwood

"This is not a reconstruction; it is symbiosis as an act of respect and dignity. As Diane Glancy 'ventriloquizes' Ada into a truth of words--written, typed, spoken, thought--she speaks the paradoxical truth of acts of writing as self-witness: 'I am hurting when I am writing.' Isolation becomes revelation. The spiritual driftwood becomes a testament of sacred connection and a claiming back of voice." --John Kinsella

"The shifting of ice. Written letters become elk, an orange is a moon, an owl is a blank page, and the stunning survival in this Arctic landscape redefines the question, "What is rescue?" Diane Glancy hears the spirits, the words beneath the words. She knows the language of scars as she honors the life of Ada Blackjack in this visionary telling of the moving world."
--Jan Beatty

"Building on diaries from a century ago, Diane Glancy weaves poetry and prose to tell the gripping story of an ill-fated expedition to a remote Arctic island. She brings bits of dry historical records to life by interspersing poetry in the voice of a troubled indigenous woman who displayed great resilience founded on her Christian faith. A Line of Driftwood is unforgettable." --A.M. Juster

Praise for Diane Glancy

"Glancy is a treasure." --American Book Review

"A moving testament to the creative act of enduring."--Foreword Reviews, starred review

"What bounty to have Glancy's great art erupt once more." --Spencer Reece

"Is there a tether that pulls [Diane Glancy] back into the historical? Or is it the other way around?" --Peter Mishler, LitHub

"Stunning. ...A graphic and compelling mosaic of human tragedy." --Library Journal, starred review

"[An] illuminating and challenging chronicle of loss, despair, and regeneration." --Washington Post Book World