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Red Mountain Press, paperback

Publication Date: April 1, 2021

Publisher Marketing:Poetry. California Interest. Native American Studies. Imagined and real worlds intersect as lyric poet Denise Low dances between mortals and the dead, humans and animals, her European and Indigenous heritages. Real pandemics and wildfires set the stage as she illumines connections between the rational and intuitive. This former Poet Laureate of Kansas mourns the lost buffalo herds and celebrates the irresistible and beautiful material world of art, from Renaissance paintings to recent works by Nick Cave, Julie Buffalohead, and Peter Max. History is a living entity in the works: English lords court on teacups; a spirit woman walks Cimarron Breaks. Two hands and vestigial limbsincluding wingsare tools for understanding the dualities of existence. Lows rich work sings a healing song, knitting opposites together into a whole.