Abstract
Abstract This essay examines Willa Cather's unpublished, undated poem “Pueblo Indian Song,” a typescript pinned to the verso of the half title page of Cather's personal copy of the 1903 edition of April Twilights. It makes a case that the poem was composed in about 1925, based on letters, travel diaries, and her fictional vocabulary. The poem places Cather's aesthetic in the realm of cultural alterity onto which she can project a sexual persona that she otherwise restricts to the privacy and intimacy of her relationship with Edith Lewis. The poem belies Cather's solastalgia, a word that initially has to do with landscape and ecological disruption but comes to be identified with personal identity and displacement of sexual identity.
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