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Carroll Arnett
(Gogisgi)
, 1927-1997
Carroll Arnett was born in 1927, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma of Cherokee-French ancestry. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946-1947. In 1951, he received his B.A. degree from Beloit College magna cum laude, and in 1958 earned his M.A. degree from University of Texas, also completing fifty hours of graduate study beyond his M.A. He taught literature and writing at Nasson College and was professor of English at Central Michigan University. He wrote more than three hundred poems and stories, sometimes under his Cherokee name Gogisgi, and was a former Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill Band of the Cherokee Nation.
Awards and Honors
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1974.
Books by Carroll Arnett:
Arnett, Carroll. American Indian chapbook
Beloit, WI. : Beloit Poetry Journal, 1980.
Genre: Poetry
Description: The Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 1979-1980. Edited by Gogisi/Carroll Arnett.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Come
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1973.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 57 p. ; 24 cm. Limited edition of 400 copies.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Earlier
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1972.
Genre: Poetry
Description: Limited to 400 copies.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Engine
Norman, OK : Point Riders Press, 1988.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 31 p : ill. ; 18 cm. Renegade series, No. 19. With drawings by Robby McMurty.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Like a wall
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1969.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 68 p. ; 20 cm.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Night perimeter : new and selected poems 1958-1990
Greenfield Center, NY : Greenfield Review Press, 1991.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 161 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Not only that
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1967.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 46 p. ; 19 cm.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Rounds
Merrick, NY : Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982.
Genre: Poetry
Language: English and Cherokee
Description: Cross-Cultural Review chapbook; Native American (Cherokee) poetry. Illustrated by Kahionhes; compiled by Joseph Bruchac.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. South line : poems
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1979.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 48 p. ; 19 cm. Printed in 250 copies.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Spells
Blue Creek, OH : Bloody Twin Press, 1995.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 20 p. ; 21 cm. Bound in illustrated olive paper wrappers printed in red. Red endsheets.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Then : poems
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1965.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 32 p. ; 20 cm.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Through the woods
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1971.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 56 p. ; 22 cm. 400 copies printed.
Audience: Adult
Arnett, Carroll. Tsalagi : poems
New Rochelle, NY : Elizabeth Press, 1976.
Genre: Poetry
Description: 29 p. ; 19 cm. Three hundred copies printed.
Audience: Adult
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