Walking With Ghosts

I put my headphones in and play Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. Great reading music. And my roommate is watching Braveheart, which is distracting me. These poems are short and spaced very broadly apart. I'll be finished with this book soon is my initial thought as I finish the first 10 pages. I loved the Beginning Cherokee. The lessons were very powerful. Map of the Americas was very powerful as well. I like the formatting of north and south America on the second page. My other favorites were Ghost Dances and Wild Indians. I'm not sure which of those two was my favorite of the entire collection, but I'd put them on the top. However the most moving poem of the book for me was A Long Story Made Short. The most powerful thing I have ever read regarding homosexuality. I want to share this poem with everyone. As I came to the last 5 pages or so my CD finished. The desire to listen to Queen's greatest hits album was quite strong.

A friend of mine had written a note on Facebook less than a week ago asking for recommendations of books to read over the summer. Halfway through reading Walking With Ghosts I put it on there.

I checked this book out from Milner, though they didn't have it in stock so I had it brought in from UofI in Chicago. I will be purchasing this book along with Flight and Grapes of Wrath first thing this summer.

Thanks for sharing this book with us.