Dissolve

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