<div><p>In this remarkable debut book of poems, winner of the Native Writers First Book Award, Suzanne S. Rancourt, presents her experience as a mixed-raced person seeking understanding through relationship with the natural world and dominant culture. Her family portraits are reminiscent of E. A. Robinson; her sensuous nature poems are imbued with love of earth as a "blessing."</P> <p>Dance</P> <p>my legs are explosions<BR>expressions<BR>of lustful wind<BR>i converse through cracks in the walls<BR>slipping in my true intention like a snow drift<BR>on the inside<BR>side of a door i pound<BR>your chest<BR>has become my wailing wall<BR>i crave your tongue dusted<BR>with words and implications<BR>i have something you need</P></DIV>