CLOUDSHADE. POEMS OF THE HIGH PLAINS - Tecno-Libro

in every season, life on America s high plains is at once harsh and beautiful, liberating and isolated, welcoming and unforgiving. The poems of Cloudshade take us through those seasons, swinging wide a glassless window to life in the West-to antelope flowing seamless over dirt roads, boom and bust ghost towns, deep, glacial lakes ringed with glowing aspen trees, ice fishing by the Northern Lights, and as in High Plains Solstice, live music on summer nights that carves hot petals . through our bodies in its ritual of tides and light. licks us open . from the inside until we are night-blooming jasmine seduced by the moon. Cloudshade is a book for everyone, from poetry lovers to those who don t usually read poems. if you ve ever waited through five or six months of winter for the first signs of spring, stood outside to feel the first, long-awaited summer rains, caught the wood-smoke and cottonwood scent