The weather--portrayed with vivid imagery--dominates this collection, set on the prairies. In Three Days Before Spring, Snow Again, he writes: "Wind is up again, / swirling and pushing around / like it had nowhere to go, / losing and finding things / and losing them again." By the author of Woven Stone.

A collection of poems and stories by a Navajo poet. In Ahidziskeii, she writes: "It's not a grand thing after all, / just that warm comfort in murmuring 'good night, ' / before I sink into that dark quiet / that exists only when we're together."

Twenty-one leading American Indian poets discuss the role of Native American culture in their work, the forces that shape contemporary Native American poetry, and the prospects of that poetry's surviving as a form apart from the poetry of the dominant culture.