Bookreview by Satis Shroff : Standing Tall & Tribal Poems Author: Bevan Thomas Title Standing Tall 1994, Library of Congress ISBN 1-56 167-273-41, 50 pages & Tribal Poems: Poems of the American West, 202, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, Toronto ISBN: 0-375-41459-2, pages 256 The best way to understand a folk is to look into their ceremonies, rituals, songs, dances, prayers and stories. The history of Native Americans is so multi-layered and as astounding as the fairy-tales and mythology of the Hindus, Greeks, Egyptians, Chinese and other peoples. These poems show us how diverse they are in their tribal and national manifestations. Bevan Thomas lived in Fort McDowell Indian Reservation in Arizona and his second book bears the title ‘ The Light in the Darkness .’ The aims and purpose of the book ‘Standing Tall’ written by Bevan Thomas are to take the reader through an entire gamut of feelings and vibes felt deeply by an Apache poet who lived in a reservation and had
