Dorothy During Wounded Knee
By Karen A. Snider
Madison, Wisconsin: Salient Seedling Press, 1984. Edition of 200.

6.5 x 8; 29 pages. A narrative poem illustrated with Pati Scobey's copper etchings (including one on a fold-out page) relief rolled and printed on Rives Heavyweight and the printer's handmade papers. Types: Ashley Crawford and Palatino. Stiff wraps with handsewn binding and title blind stamped on cover.

A poem of angry frustration about a young waitress in a cowboy's world, a world of "racist ignorant manure covered assholes!"

Colophon: "Karen Snider's poem comes from a long ongoing series entitled The Dorothy Poems."

all day during wounded
knee all day wounded knee
my red hands scuttling
scuttling over shifting plates
I curse the fates
and fill the catsup

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