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Combing the Snakes from His Hair by James Thomas Stevens,
The title, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, alludes to an Iroquois story of healing. Atatarho, the Onondaga leader, had a crooked body baikalguide comb hair and a head covered with snakes. In order to achieve peace, Atatarho had to be healed: his mind straightened, his body straightened, the snakes combed from his hair. Similarly, during the writing of these poems, Stevens experienced a healing, a setting straight of his life baikalguide comb hair and a setting straight of the record. The book is concerned with language -- who controls it, who possesses it, baikalguide comb hair and how it is used by the colonizer to erase indigenous cultures.
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