Leslie marmon silk o biography sample

Celebrated as a both a poet and a novelist, Leslie Marmon Silko is an author of mixed descent—having Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and Caucasian ancestry—and she has drawn on this multi-faceted background in her creative works.

Leslie marmon silk o biography sample

Silko grew up on New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo reservation and earned a B.A. the University of New Mexico in 1969. Over the next decade, she would publish several of the books that would form the basis of her reputation as an insightful storyteller, including the poetry collection Laguna Women Poems (1974), the hybrid collection Storyteller (1981), and the novel Ceremony (1977), perhaps her single most famous work.

Instead of treating poetry and prose as separate realms of expression, Silko often pairs off and combines the two modes.

Ceremony, for instance, interweaves the prose account of Tayo, a Native American veteran of World War II, with symbolic and narrative poems that mirror Tayo's