From the Book - First Norton paperback.
From: The last song, 1975, Puerto del Sol Press, chapbook no. 1: Watching crow, looking south toward the Manzano Mountains ; "for a hopi silversmith" ; San Juan Pueblo and South Dakota are 800 miles away on a map ; "he told me his name was sitting bull" ; 3 a.m. ; "the last song" ; Are you still there? ; Conversations between here and home --
From: What moon drove me to this?, 1979, I. Reed Books: Four horse songs ; I am a dangerous woman ; There was a dance, sweetheart ; Crossing the border ; Someone talking ; Fire --
From: She had some horses, 1983, Thunder's Mouth Press: Call it fear ; Anchorage ; For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak ; The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window ; White bear ; Skeleton of winter ; Remember ; New Orleans ; She had some horses ; I give you back --
From: Secrets from the center of the world, 1989, University of Arizona Press: My house is the red earth ; If you look with the mind of the swirling earth ; If all events are related ; This land is a poem ; Anything that matters ; Invisible fish ; Don't bother the earth spirit ; It is an honor --
From: In mad love and war, 1990, Wesleyan University Press: Grace ; Deer dancer ; For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, whose spirit is present here and in the dappled stars ; Trickster ; Bird ; The real revolution is love ; Song for the deer and myself to return on ; Rainy dawn ; Santa Fe ; Desire ; The book of myths ; Transformations ; Eagle poem --
From: The woman who fell from the sky, 1994, W.W. Norton: Reconciliation, a prayer ; The creation story ; The woman who fell from the sky ; The flood ; A postcolonial tale ; The myth of blackbirds ; The song of the house in the house ; Letter from the end of the twentieth century ; Promise of blue horses ; The place the musician became a bear ; Fishing ; Promise ; The dawn appears with butterflies ; Perhaps the world ends here --
From: A map to the next world: poems and tales, 2000, W.W. Norton: Songline of dawn ; A map to the next world ; The end ; Emergence ; Songs from the house of death, or How to make it through to the end of a relationship ; The path to the Milky Way leads through Los Angeles ; The power of never ; Hold up ; Returning from the enemy ; The ceremony ; This is my heart ; Protocol ; Morning song --
New poems, 1999-2001: In praise of earth ; Letter (with songline) to the Breathmaker ; I am not ready to die yet ; Naming ; Faith ; Equinox ; Ah, ah ; Morning prayers ; The everlasting ; And if I awaken in Los Angeles ; It's raining in Honolulu ; Rushing the Pali ; When the world as we knew it ended.