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Listen
by Gus Palmer, Jr.
a poem
sings all
by itself
but cannot
save us.
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Gus Palmer, Jr. is an associate professor of anthropology. He published the book Telling Stories the Kiowa Way in 2003. He is currently editing a volume of Native oral literature for The Native Literatures of the Americas Series, University of Nebraska Press.