Faultdancing

Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback. Printed orange and gray wrappers with spine fading extending onto the adjacent cover edges, light surface rubbing and minor edge and corner wear. Binding secure. Light age toning to pages and page edges. Ownership name in ink on half-title; occasional small pencil ticks on contents pages. Includes contents, a list of the author’s other works, and an author portrait on the rear cover. Listing photos show the exact copy included in this sale. American nature poetry combining vivid animal and landscape imagery with dreamlike free verse and spiritual reflection. Short lyrics and longer sequences connect physical sensation with questions of mortality, perception, and the sacred. “Like Hills. Like Water” portrays a bull through muscular imagery and metaphor; “Sweat” evokes the heat and darkness of a sweat lodge; “To Walk Across” uses biblical imagery to consider body and mind. Repetition, shifting line lengths, and irregular stanza arrangements shape the poems’ rhythms. Five sections encompass travel, predation, dreams, and contemplative songs, with beauty and compassion alongside danger and unease. Part of the Pitt Poetry Series.…