Under the White Wing - An Extraordinary Reading

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Charles Squier

UNDER THE WHITE WING:

EVENTS AT SAND CREEK

Sunday, March 18^th, 3:00 p.m.

3021 Jefferson St., Boulder, CO 80304

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Charles Squier's masterfully lean and fast-moving verse narrative vividly evokes the characters and motives convergent in one of the nation's most unforgivable chapters, the Sand Creek massacre. Rarely, if ever, has any episode in that slow holocaust called "the winning of the West" been revealed with such movingly understated irony. The verse line of Under the White Wing is clean, muscular, and mercifully free of the falsely "poetikal." Its illumination of the barbarism which in the American West once passed for civilization places Squier's poem among the best of its genre.

-Reg Saner, author of Reaching Keet Seel:

Ruin's Echo and the Anasazie

Here we have the tragic events of the Sand Creek massacre of 1864 truthfully told in a language so clear and visual that you will think you have already seen the movie. It is a story that has the power to transform us, if we listen.

-Gary Holthaus, author of Circling Back