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One of today's generation of outstanding Native writers, Esther Belin is an urban Indian. Raised in the city, she speaks with an entirely different voice from that of her reservation kindred as she expresses herself on subjects of urban alienation, racism, sexism, substance abuse, and cultural estrangement.
From the Belly of My Beauty, a collection of poems which won the American Book Award, presents a startling vision of urban California--particularly Los Angeles--contrasted with Navajo life in the Four Corners region. Esther Belin currently lives in Durango, Colorado.
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