A musical, magical, resilient volume from one of our most celebrated and
essential Native American voices.
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the
grinding politics of being human. Beginning in a hotel room in the dark of a
distant city, we travel through history and follow the memory of the Trail of
Tears from the bend in the Tallapoosa River to a place near the Arkansas River.
Stomp dance songs, blues, and jazz ballads echo throughout. Lost ancestors are
recalled. Resilient songs are born, even as they grieve the loss of their
country. Called a "magician and a master" (San