Record details

• ISBN: 0816521654 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780816521654 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: x, 75 p. ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2001.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Blue mountains -- Great blue herons -- Spider dance -- The raccoon -- Celebrating corn -- Amoroleck's words -- Chief Totopotamoi, 1654 -- Site of a massacre -- Oronoco -- Jamestown revisited -- My standard response -- Markings on earth -- Moving the mountains -- Hard times -- Colors -- The room -- Four weeks in July -- Something is always taking us away -- Urban nightmare -- Fire and water -- For my ex-husband -- Confession beneath plum trees -- Smoke -- In memory of shame -- Refuge -- Amends -- For them -- First light -- Endless land -- Veterans' dance with my father -- Discovery -- The lilies -- The bed -- The beginning of fire -- Cactus song -- Smoke dancers -- Making apple butter -- Order -- Red hawk woman -- Before your mother's death -- Between us -- Another visit to the cancer specialist -- The milking -- The man in the road -- Returning -- First light.

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