yet more complicated and salient issues are at the heart of these poems

color-coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings

and Mandan gardeners and harvesters

With God's Red Son

and the lessons of plant life to a new generation

Light as Light Molalla yet more complicated and salientLight As Light is acclaimed poet Simon J. Ortizs first collection in twenty years. The poems in this volume celebrate the wonders and joy of love in the present while also looking back with both humorous and serious reflections on youth and the stories, scenes, people, and places that shape a persons life. Light As Light brims with giddy, wistful long distance love poems that offer a dialogue between the speaker and his beloved. Written in Ortizs