Counting Back: Voices of the Lakota and Pioneer Settlers

by Sylvia Griffith Wheeler

Price 124 pages, $12.95 cloth

ISBN 0-933532-85-7

The poems in this book represent an important exhumation of regional oral history. The historical period they describe is full of violence and pain, involving the clash of alien cultures in a landscape which, despite its size and sweep, was still not big enough to tolerate the peculiarities of each. --Conger Beasley Jr.

Sylvia Griffith Wheeler is the author of Dancing Alone and City Limits. She is also the editor of In the Middle: Midwestern Women Poets and For Kids, By Kids. Her play, This Fool History, based on South Dakota oral history tapes, won the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre's Midwestern Playwright's Merit Award. She taught English at the University of South Dakota for many years.

A recorded interview with this author is available from New Letters on the Air.