Firekeeper

Poetry in service to humanity. BARRY LOPEZ Pattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of Americas finest contemporary poets. Her writingwith its firm roots in science and the natural worldhas been compared to Emersons and Whitmans. She has written about motherhood, art, science, spirituality, and the tension between humanity and wildness. Firekeeper presents the best work from Rogerss career in one powerfully compact book, including such favorite poems as Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird, The Hummingbird: A Seduction, Animals and People: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself, and Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew. This edition reflects the poets own selection from her work and was expanded to include poems from the five books published between the first release of Firekeeper in 1994 and this editions publication in 2006. For both those well-acquainted with Rogerss work and those only just encountering this poet for the first time, this is the book to have.