Light as Light

Light as LightLight As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortizs first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume celebrate the wonders and joy of love in the present while also looking back with both humorous and serious reflections on youth and the stories, scenes, people, and places that shape a persons life. Light As Light brims with giddy, wistful long distance love poems that offer a dialogue between the speaker and his beloved. Written in Ortizs

the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: "Let me call my anxiety

Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms--and our relationships with them--are changing our understanding of how life works

Smith (PhD

evolving identities of American Indigenous women today

I’m a special kind of dog known as a Rez Dog

rain or shine―nothing will stop Ningiuq

along with all other Indigenous spiritual practices

After a rocky start

showing that deference to older women and men is part of a fuller moral

For years she collected material for a study that would document the variations from group to group

plus their role in traditional stories and myths

" offering a child a "better chance at life