Bitsui\'s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images.
He currently lives in Arizona where he has serves on the faculty of the Institute of American Indian Arts..
He is the author of two other books of poetry, among them Flood Song , which won an American Book Award.
Sherwin Bitsui was raised in White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation.
This plot, now a hotel garden, its fountain gushing forth-- the slashed wrists of the Colorado River.
Jeweled with houseflies, leather rattles, foil-wrapped, ferment in beaked masks on the shores of evaporating lakes. . .
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Bitsui proves himself to be one of this century\'s most haunting, raw, and uncompromising voices.
Fluidly shape-shifting and captured by language that functions like a moving camera, Dissolve is urban and rural, past and present in the haze of the reservation. -- Library Journal Drawing upon Navajo history and enduring tradition, Sherwin Bitsui leads us on a treacherous, otherworldly passage through the American Southwest.
A great reading experience for those who like serious and innovative poetry.
Bitsui\'s poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images
