The Book of Bearings puts the puzzle pieces of the New World together without a picture on the puzzle box.
This Book addresses the Native American process of assimilation from first contact thr.
The poems include voices from the mid-nineteenth-century Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and the mid-twentieth-century Eskimo experience in Alaska, as well as personal narratives.
The characters struggle to situate themselves between what they were and what they are supposed to become.
The Book of Bearings puts the puzzle pieces of the New World together without a picture on the puzzle box