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• ISBN: 9780393248500 (hardcover)
• ISBN: 039324850X (hardcover)
• Physical Description: xvi, 139 pages ; 22 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York ; W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]

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Formatted Contents Note:

Part One: How It Came to Be -- "I lay my body down..." -- For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet -- "For any spark to make a song..." -- Rabbit Is Up to Tricks -- "Listened to an alto sax player..." -- No -- "Humans were created by mistake..." -- Once the World Was Perfect -- "When I woke up from a forty-year sleep..." -- Cricket Song -- "After years you realize..." -- Entering the Principality of O'ahu by Sky Roads -- "Each human is a complex, contradictory story..." -- We Were There When Jazz Was Invented -- "This is only one of many worlds..." -- Reality Show -- "When I blow my horn..." -- Beautiful Baby, Beautiful Child -- Part Two: The Wanderer -- Talking with the Sun -- " 'One way to look at it,' he told me..." -- Spirit Walking in the Tundra -- "Where we lived, the settlers built their houses..." -- Mother Field -- "Let's not shame our eyes..." -- Walk -- "Midnight is a horn player..." -- Charlie and the Baby -- "When I walk over to join you in the two-step..." -- Had-It-Up-to-Here Round Dance -- " 'Through these doors walk some of the finest...' " -- One Day There Will Be Horses -- "When I returned to my ancestral grounds..." -- Goin' Home -- "Our Mvskoke new year is inherently..." -- The First Day Without a Mother -- Part Three: Visions and Monsters -- Falling, Falling -- "Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries..." -- In Mystic -- "This is the kitchen table university..." -- Listening to Blues in a Fish Joint, Downtown Denver -- "I would do anything for you, baby..." -- Indian School NIght Song Blues -- "Do not feed the monsters..." -- Suicide Watch -- "We all have helpers..." -- This Morning I Pray for My Enemies -- "Ah, but what about being..." -- Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings -- "The first horn I played..." -- Forever -- "And then I argued with myself..." -- I Am Not Ready to Die Yet -- "Whenever a saxophone begins..." -- Report from the Edge of a Terrible Regime -- "In one house lives the sun..." -- From DFW Airport at Dawn -- "What kept me going was that perfect song..." -- The Last World of Fire and Trash -- Part Four: The World -- You Can Change the Story, My Spirit Said to Me as I Sat Near the Sea -- "Those who could see into the future predicted the storm..." -- Sunrise Healing Song -- "I knew there was no way..." -- It's Raining in Honolulu -- "The day went on as it always had..." -- Praise the Rain -- "Time is a being, like you, like me..." -- Rushing the Pali -- "I thought of all the doors..." -- Surfing Canoes -- "I returned to the city of country swing..." -- Speaking Tree -- "I heard a raven cry the blues..." -- Everybody Has Heartache -- "Everyone comes into the world..." -- For a Girl Becoming -- "I keep thinking of my boyfriend..." -- Fall Song -- "My friend Sarita went visiting..." -- For Keeps -- "I confided in him the longing..." -- Equinox -- "What are you ding there, soul..." -- Sunrise

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American poetry.