Ralph Salisbury

Ralph Salisbury is an American poet of Cherokee, Shawnee and Euroamerican heritage. His poem "In the Children's Museum in Nashville" was published in The New Yorker in 1960, making him one of the first Native American poets to receive national attention. His autobiography So Far So Good won the 2012 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize.

Awards

• River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Book Prize (2012)
• Rockefeller Bellagio Award in fiction (1992)
• Northwest Poetry Award
• Chapelbrook Award

Bibliography

Autobiography

• So Far So Good, University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Poetry

• Like the Sun in Storm, Habit of Rainy Nights Press, 2012
• Light from a Bullet Hole: Poems New and Selected, Silverfish Review Press, 2009
• Blind Pumper at the Well, Salt Publishing, Cambridge (UK), 2008
• War in the Genes, Cherry Grove Editions, 2005
• Rainbows of Stone, University of Arizona Press, September 2000
• A White Rainbow, Poems of a Cherokee Heritage, Blue Cloud Press 1985
• Going to the Water: Poems of a Cherokee Heritage, Pacific House Books, 1983
• Spirit Beast Chant, Blue Cloud Press, 1982
• Pointing at the Rainbow, Blue Cloud Press, 1982
• Ghost Grapefruit and Other Poems, Ithaca House, 1972

Short stories

• The Indian Who Bombed Berlin, stories, Michigan State University Press, 2009
• The Last Rattlesnake Throw, stories, University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
• One Indian and Two Chiefs, stories, Navajo Community College Press, 1993

Translations

Poesie Da Un Retaggio Cherokee, Multimedia Edizioni, Salerno, Italy 1995, Tr. Prof. Fedora Giordano