Journey to the Interior The Eagle Warrior: An Invocation The Cherokee Lottery The Trail The Talking Leaves: Sequoyah's Alphabet Old Cherokee Woman's Song The Crossing The Pumpkin Field The Buzzard Man Christmas in Washington with the Choctaw Chief At the Theater: The Death of Osceola The Players The Choctaw Stick-Ball Game Song of the Dispossed The Buffalo Hunter Sitting Bull in Serbia The Burning of Malmaison The Artist and His Pencil: A Search for the Purebloods Full Circle: The Connecticut Casino Acknowledgments and Notes Picture Credits
William Jay Smith (born 22 April 1918) is an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
"William Jay Smith has been one of our best poets for more than sixty years, and The Cherokee Lottery is his masterwork; taut, harrowing, eloquent, and profoundly memorable." --Harold Bloom|"[This] is a powerful collage of occasions having to do with the "removal" of the southern trives to the west, and each glimpse is made striking and poignant by the pen of William Jay Smith. The book tells much that I had not known, and tells it with compelling art." --Richard Wilbur|"[William Jay Smith's] exploration of a shameful episode in American history, in verse moved by irony and humor as well as by tragedy, is a major work by one of our most accomplished poets."--Daniel Hoffman
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