This bold new collection by American Book Award winner Maurice Kenny explores the intersections between life and art. Part one explores the lives of well known gay artists; part two focuses on Kenny’s often difficult relationship with his father. 

This is the first new book by this major Native American poet since Carving Hawk: New and Selected Poems.

Maurice Kenny is one of the major voices of Native American letters. His books of poetry include BetweenTwo Rivers, Tekonwatonti: Molly Brant, Blackrobe, and Carving Hawk. He has also published books of fiction and essays.

 “The world Kenny opens for us is personal, yet never sentimental. It is a world in which long-dead relatives can appear when they are needed; in which the drum sounds in rituals of curing; a world vibrant with the natural landscape.”

        —Joseph Bruchac - Small Press Review

 “Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny’s contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.”

                                                            —Wendy Rose

“A master lyricist.”                       

—Joseph Bruchac

“What distinguishes the best of Kenny’s work is the almost incantory language which works to blur the distinction between the human and the rest of the natural world”

-Barry Silesky - Another Chicago Magazine