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Songbird's work in Bitterroot is stark and tender, has wisdom and real information for modern human beings. It rises out of and continues the Native tradition of Mary TallMountain. Poems like One Wail Rising invent and carry forward what it means to be Indian in urban America. There is an authentic and valuable voice here. –Duane BigEagle 
this land
unlike a map is not stagnant unmoving not fixed flat on a page a frozen terrain new rivers may be carved daily by logs fallen to lightning deep channels from the scat of deer, moose, wolf and bear may grow the rarest blooms tendrils, furls of green fern... 
These poems offer surprising images that are stunning and fresh... new songs to our ears. It's like being in a circle, hearing the diversity of metaphors, from the street to the forest, from a fresh water river to the sewers of a city. . . Abena Songbird's voice is daring and real. –Janice Mirikitani San Francisco Poet Laureate 2000 |
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Abena Songbird, 613 Dakota Dr., Rapid City SD, 57702 phone (605) 716-5261