Billboard in the Clouds

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.

Dance

my legs are explosions

expressions

of lustful wind

i converse through cracks in the walls

slipping in my true intention like a snow drift

on the inside

side of a door i pound

your chest

has become my wailing wall

i crave your tongue dusted

with words and implications

i have something you need