Lithic Scatter and Other Poems

At once sweeping, visceral, earthy, gritty, ethereal, and primordial, Karla Linn Merrifield s Lithic Scatter and Other Poems unfolds a kaleidoscopic odyssey of the American West at its all-natural wildest. Here is the frontier seen and felt through the eyes of a visionary poet who explores the region s vast terrains as anthropologist and archeologist, historian and ethnographer, shaman and seeker-after-self. From the whimsical to the emotionally searing, these 59 poems evoke vast landscapes rich in myth and mysticism, loss and hope. Merrifield captures the West s majesty and brings it home for all to discover.