Wendy Rose - Works - Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

• Itch Like Crazy (2002) -- this work deals with buried secrets of personal, family, and American history in relation to the human experience.
• Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1992 (1994) -- a collection of some of her works from all of her different collections focusing on the condition of the “halfbreed.”
• Now Poof She Is Gone (1994) -- a collection of more of her private and personal poems with a common theme of feminine identity.
• Going to War With All My Relations (1993) -- this volume documents her thirty-some years of activities with the Fourth World Movement.
• The Halfbreed Chronicles & Other Poems (1985) -- this volume mixes the pain of marginalization with the desire for wholeness in her stories of oppression mixed with beauty.
• What Happened When the Hopi Hit New York (1982) -- this volume is her search for tribal and personal history in a modern and foreign world.
• Lost Copper (1980) -- a Pulitzer Prize nominee, the central focus is on Roses’ feelings of marginalization and her desire to be part of the native community and blended identity.
• Aboriginal Tattooing in California (1979)
• Builder Kachina: A Home-Going Cycle (1979) -- a journey from her mother’s land to her father’s in search of tribal identity.
• Academic Squaw: Reports to the World from the Ivory Tower (1977) -- her ironic title reflects on the (un)reality of her experience as an American Indian in the white university system (as well as which beginning a theme of scholar and subject).
• Long Division: A Tribal History (1976)
• Hopi Roadrunner Dancing (1973) -- her first major work deals with issues which arose with her involvement in AIM as well as personal struggles with cultural identity.