Geri Gutwein
Books
An Utterance of Small Truths
An Utterance of Small Truths explores the relationships of family in times of struggle, loss, and joy.Spearfish, SD, 2021
available for purchase at :
Independent Online Bookstore, Rapid City, SD
"Geri Gutwein is a gifted poet who has some very important stories to tell. As a sharp and compassionate observer of her Lakota family history, Geri is helping to undue centuries of erasure."
-Rick Kearns, Poet/Journalist/Teacher
author of Crow at the Lawson Hotel (2019)
The Story She Told
The poems in The Story She Told reflect the diverse landscape of culture, family, and female power. Rabbit Press, Harrisburg, PA, 2003
available for purchase at :
Independent Online Bookstore, Rapid City, SD
"Geri Mendoza Gutwein’s poems in 'The Story She Told' explore the intersections of stories and life, the past and present, poverty and survival, race and history, tradition and the present, while also celebrating family and the blessings of the prairie. Her poems are full of detailed imagery telling of pain, suffering, joy, and love in a gentle voice that also dances “amidst prairie dust and sweat, bells chinking through the night."
-Patricia Hanahoe-Dosch, Poet
author of The Wrack Line
Every Orbit of the Circle
Every Orbit of the Circle depicts a picture of life on the reservation and the remarkable strength of a Native American family. Rabbit Press, Harrisburg, PA, 1995
out of print
Publications
With thanks to the editors of the following publications where these poems appeared
Connecticut Review
“Making Tortillas,” “Sisters,” “Combing Hair”
Fledgling Rag
“About Hands,” “Elegy for My Little Brother” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), “Severing the Tie,” “Griever”
The Wildwood Journal
“Star Gazers,” “The Readers,” “Parking Spaces,” “Salvage,” “Left Behind,” “Searching for the Jabberwocky,” “The Price of a Story”
Bards Against Hunger
“What Might Have Been”
Roots Trunk Sky : by Members of the IWWG's Imagination and Justice Meditation-Freewriting Circle
“In Memoriam," "Mni Wiconi, Water is Life"