Mary TallMountain is a Native writer whose “lantern voices seek to lead us out of the given darkness,” and “her work, like seasoned oak, is full of heat and fire, simplicity and compassion,” writes poet and scholar Alfred Robinson. The poems in this collection confront death and engage the sacred. Joy Harjo calls each poem “a track, and the series of tracks makes a bridge back to the ‘light on the tent wall,’ which is the sacred place of the songs, the stories that created us.”

• ISBN: 9780935626346
• Author: Tallmountain, Mary
• Published: 1990 , University of California, American Indian Stu
• Themes: Indigenous
• Descriptors: Americas, North America, Poetry, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 152