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| While I have done research on censorship in Idaho public libraries, WWI Belgian wheat and flour sack paintings, AIDS and Artist's Books, forest clear cutting and a number of other topics, from 1980-1995 I focused my research on Silent filmmaker Nell Shipman. In the early 1990's, however, I became fascinated with autistic, Self-Taught Idaho artist and bookmaker James Castle. Castle and Western American writer M.M.B. ("Marnie") Walsh are my current obsessions. |
Nell Shipman
in The Grub-Stake.
Priest Lake, Idaho.
Letters from God's Country: front cover.
Letters from God's Country: back cover.
New! Clip of Shipman's Trail of the North Wind!
Links:
http://www.utoronto.ca/shipman
http://www.boisestate.edu/hemingway/film.htm
http://library.boisestate.edu/special/PARGRAPH/mss81.htm
http://www.boisestate.edu/hemingway/g2/nell.htm
http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/doctors_house/nell/Page1.html
James Castle
Links:
http://english.boisestate.edu/idahoreview
M.M.B. ("Marnie") Walsh
M.M.B. Walsh, jacket photograph from Dolly Purdo (Putnam's 1975)
A poem by Marnie Walsh titled “Bessie Dreaming Bear” will be reprinted in a weekly column by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Kooser’s column, “American Life in Poetry,” appears in newspapers nationwide.
Walsh’s poem is from “A Taste of the Knife,” published in 1976 by Boise State’s Ahsahta Press and now in its fourth printing. The volume remains a powerful collection of poetry about Native American life in the West. Walsh, who died in 1996, is also the author of “Grassheart,” a novel encompassing more than a half-century of Plains Native American history.
BESSIE DREAMING BEAR
ROSEBUD, SO. DAK., 1960
we all went to town one day
went to a store
bought you new shoes
red high heels
ain’t seen you since
Links:
