Anita Endrezze



Anita Endrezze is a poet, writer, and artist. She is half-Yaqui Indian and half European (Slovian, German-Romanian, and northern Italian). Endrezze was born in Long Beach, California in 1952. She graduated with an MA from Eastern Washington University. She lives in Everett, Washington, is married with two children and works as a storyteller, artist and teacher. Endrezze teaches university courses and her work has been translated into seven languages, published in ten countries. She has taken part in the Washington State Council for the Humanities Speakers' Series.

Yaqui poet and artist
Her latest book, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, is a "blend of ancient myths, poetry, journal extracts, short stories, and essays that tell her people's story" (University of Arizona Press catalogue) from creation to the present. The book is illustrated by her paintings.

A book of Anita's poems, at the helm of twilight, won the l992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Award and the Governor's Writing Award for Washington State. She also received a grant from Artist Trust to aid her in researching Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon. Lune D'Ambre, a book of her poems translated into French, and published in France by the distinguished house, Rogerie, and a book, The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, published in England by Making Waves Press joins her international publications, along with a children's novel, The Mountain and the Guardian Spirit, (CDForlag) in Danish. Her paintings have been exhibited in Wales, England, Sweden, Denmark, and the United States. Several of her paintings appear on anthology book covers as well as on her own books.

Awards
Anita's book At the Helm of Twilight was the winner of the Washington Governor's Writers Award and the 1992 Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award.

Writing available online
Ponies Gathering in the Dark in Ploughshares

The Medicine Bundle in The Raven's Chronicles

The Girl Who Loved the Sky

The Courtship of the Sun and Moon

At the Altar of Dreams

Sunset at Twin Lake

This is a Poem about Indians

My Little Sister's Heart in my Hands

The Girl Who Loved the Sky

Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Angel

Raven Moon

Song for Our Times

Midsummer Eve

Song-Maker

This Is America This is the World

Vasco Nunez de Balboa's "Little Lion"

We Came This Way

Crown of White Hair

Manifest Destiny

Books by Anita Endrezze
Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon, (Sun Tracks, V. 40), University of Arizona Press.
 * Review at Voices in the Gaps
 * Publisher's page

The Humming of Stars and Bees and Waves, Making Waves Press.

at the helm of twilight, Broken Moon Press.
 * A review of At the Helm of Twilight by Leslie Ulman from the Kenyon Review

Burning the Fields, a Confluence Chapbook, Confluence Press, Lewis and Clark State College.

The North People, The Blue Cloud Quarterly Press.

Anthologies
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening, Linda Hogan & Brenda Peterson (Editors), North Point Pr.

Shorewords: A Collection of American Women's Coastal Writings, Susan A. C. Rosen (editor), University of Virginia Press.

Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 (CDROM)

Witches' Brew, Yvonne Jocks (Editor), Berkley Pub Group.

250 Poems: A Portable Anthology, Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl (Editors), Bedford/St. Martin' Press.

The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems, Patrice Vecchione (Editor), Henry Holt.

Voices of Light: Spiritual and Visionary Poems by Women Around the World, from Ancient Sumeria to Now, Aliki Barnstone (Editor), Shambala Pub.

Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry, Jim Elledge & Susan Swartwout (Editors), Indiana University Press.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Cary Nelson (Editor), Oxford University Press.

The Sweet Breathing of Plants : Women Writing on the Green World, Linda Hogan, Brenda Peterson (Editors), North Point Press.

People of the Circle, People of the Four Directions, Scott McCarthy (Editor), Blue Dolphin Books.

Holes, with Connections, HRW Library.

Hozho: Walking In Beauty, Paula Gunn Allen & Carolyn Dunn Anderson (Editors), Contemporary Books/McGraw-Hill, 2001

Sing With the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry 1890-1999, Kenneth Lincoln, Univ. Calif. Press.

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America, Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird (editor), W.W. Norton.

Lost Rivers, Making Waves Press 1997.

Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers, Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Anchor Books

Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry, John E. Smelcer, D. L. Birchfield (Editors), Salmon Run Pub.

Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, Craig Lesley, Katheryn Stavrakis (Editor), Dell Books

Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience, Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Anchor.

Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing, (Sun Tracks, Vol 19), by Andrea Lerner (Editor), Univ of Arizona Press.

Storming Heaven's Gate : An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women, Amber Coverdale Sumrall & Patrice Vecchione, Plume/Penguin Books.

Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women's Poetry, Marilyn Sewell (Editor)

Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, Duane Niatum (Editor), HarperCollins

Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: An Anthology of Poetry by American Indian Writers, Joseph Bruchac (Editor), Greenfield Review Press

Deep Down Things; Poems of the Inland Pacific Northwest, Ron McFarland (Editor), Washington State Univ Press.

A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women, Beth Brant (Editor), Firebrand Books

The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by Aboriginal Women, Connie Fife (Editor), Sister Vision Press. Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, Kim Barnes, Mary Clearman Blew (Editors), Penguin USA

The Book of Eros: Arts and Letters from Yellow Silk, Lily Pond & Richard Russo (Editors), Crown Pub.

Hungry Poets' Cookbook, Glenda McManus (Editor), Applezaba Press

Eating Our Hearts Out: Personal Accounts of Women's Relationship to Food, Leslea Newman (Editor), Crossing Pr.

Bed Linens: Head to Toe, Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, Kathryn Livingston (Editors), Knopf

Rain in the Forest, Light in the Trees: Contemporary Poetry from the Norhtwest, Rich Ives (Editor), Owl Creek Press.

Voices of the Rainbow: Contemporary Poetry by Native Americans, Kenneth Rosen (Editor), R.C. Gorman, Aaron Yava (Illustrator), Arcade Pub.

Words in the Blood: Contemporary Indian Writers of North and South America, Jamake Highwater (Editor), New American Library Trade

Carriers of the Dream Wheel, Duane Niatum (Editor), HarperCollins

New and Old Voices of Wah'Kon-Tah: Contemporary Native American Poetry, Intl Pub Co.

Wolf: Spirit of the Wild, (Nature Co. 1993, Walking Stick Press)

The First Skin Around Me, (Moorhead State College & Territorial Press, 1976)

Textbooks
Approaching Literature in the 21st Century, Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl (Editors), Bedford/St. Martins Press.

Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, Stephen Minot, Prentice Hall.

Approaching Poetry: Perspectives and Responses, Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, St. Martin's Press.

Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, by John Frederick Nims, McGraw Hill Text.

Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers, Marjorie Ford, Jon Ford, Harpercollins College Div.

Elements of Literature, by Robert Anderson, Holt Rinehart & Winston.

Yo Words, One Reel, Seattle 1994

" The Girl Who Loved the Sky "

Interviews
Here First, Arnold Krupat, Brian Swann (Editors), Random House

Interview with Anita Endrezze - Poet

Work Published in Translation
Lune d'Ambre, (Rougerie, 1993) poems in French.

Bjerget og Skystsaanden (The Mountain and the Guardian Spirit) (CDR Forlag, 1986)
 * A children's book in Danish.

Anthologized

 * Do Lado Dos Ollos, (edicions do cumio, 2001)
 * Poesi Presente Anthology, France, 2001.
 * Stories and Poetry from the Blue Cloud, (in Greek), 1999.
 * Figlie di Pocahontas (Daughters of Pocahontas) (Grunti, 1995) An anthology published in Italy in both English and Italian.
 * Auch Das Gras Hat Ein Lied'' (Herder & Co., 1988, Austria) An anthology published in German.
 * Parole nel Sangue: Poesia indiana americana contemporanea (Mondadori, 1991) An anthology published in Italy in both English and Italian.
 * Piste Perdute, Piste Ritrovate, (Jaca Book, Milano Italy) An anthology published in Italian.