Cedar Brant

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Pack a copy and just go.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                ~ Douglas H. Chadwick, author of </div> <div> <I>The Wolverine Way</I></div> <div>                     </div> <div> From the Preface:</div> <bR> <div> <I>Like Any Other Dream Will Do </I>is the threshold over which Cedar's poems echo the <I>stories we take into our quiet bodies / the moment of our conception. </I>Each line clears a trail under tree bark, like the ancient tunnel-writing of insects.<I> Here the giant bodies / of salmon bend / over submerged limbs / are washed</I> <I>up on our banks / with the silt.</I> <I>Smoke / circling / wider now </I>in the <I>cadence of crickets</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Cr<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" >aig Czury, Editor, Montana Poets Series</FONT></div> <div> Reading, Pa.</div> <div> 10/1/10</div> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Raven Ash </B></div> <bR> <div> Above me a raven is clucking </div> <div> in the dry heat</div> <div> rubbing two stones of sound </div> <div> under her glossy throat.</div> <div> It is the sound of contentment</div> <div> an affirmation to these smoky hills</div> <div> that it has always been this way.</div> <bR> <div> It is not a harsh sound:</div> <div> two bamboo stalks in a breeze</div> <div> two full water jugs jostled together.</div> <div> A round wet sound.</div> <bR> <div> Yellow grasses dry to the cadence of crickets,</div> <div> biscuit root long gone to seed.</div> <div> Across the valley three red tails circle</div> <div> and disappear into distance and smoke.</div> <bR> <div> Fire moves once again </div> <div> mountains shouldering your smoke</div> <div> calm hot valleys</div> <div> cows crowd in small pools of shade.</div> <div> We know you,</div> <div> fire</div> <div> feel you near in your spangled black river.</div> <bR> <div> Raven</div> <div> she is your black winged body.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Look Back</B></div> <bR> <div> You emerge from the green shadows </div> <div> yellow awns of your body,</div> <div> and still the same spit in your mouth.</div> <bR> <div> Nothing has changed</div> <div> since our october youth</div> <div> shook unbounded wool </div> <div> and hot skin</div> <div> a candle by your bed</div> <div> the night I first pulled you naked.</div> <bR> <div> What did we prove in that all night kiss</div> <div> bucket seat of your old truck?</div> <bR> <div> It is true </div> <div> I have never known how to navigate</div> <div> your need of something big</div> <div> huge, greater than me</div> <div> tunneled through my body</div> <div> to you.</div> <bR> <div> What is proven by </div> <div> sunset pulling over</div> <div> way out in the prairie</div> <div> to take you in my mouth</div> <div> the long drive over the divide</div> <div> to pull over just in time to save us, again.</div> <div> Now that crease of missing.</div> <bR> <div> How do we pry beneath the floor boards</div> <div> and navigate the black widowed sump</div> <div> the narrows we built</div> <div> with no proof</div> <div> of anything?</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Cedar Brant was born in a barn in northwest Montana.  She spent her youth fascinated by wolves. This intrigue propelled her into biology, and a love affair with the land and culture of the rural west.  For the past ten years, she has worked from Yellowstone to the empty valleys of Nevada, Oregon and Montana as a botanist and field biologist. She spends her summers living in a trailer in various rolling grasslands, counting and keying out plants, and honing her four-wheeling skills.      </div> <div> Her poetry and essays have appeared in <I>Camas</I>, and <I>Poems Across the Big Sky</I>. In 2007, she and several other Montana writers formed the traveling poetry troupe Bentgrass, who tour the state performing poetry and music, and hosting writing workshops.  In 2008 they received a grant from Humanities Montana for their “On East” tour to the small ranching towns of eastern Montana where, among other honors, they were invited to tour a longhorn cattle operation, stay the night at the mayor's house, and attend northeastern Montana's “Schmeckfest”, a Mennonite sausage eating party.  They have self-published two volumes of poetry, <I>Windfall Season </I>(2007) and <I>Night Corn</I> (2010). She unpacks her bags in Missoula.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="203c8d00.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Like Any Other Dream Will Do</B><B> </B>is a 68 page hand-stitched paper book with spine - $16.00</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                               </div> <div>       </div> <bR> <div> From the US         <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Like Any Other Dream Will Do "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--25"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Canada    <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Like Any Other Dream Will Do "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--25"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="2.75"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Like Any Other Dream Will Do "> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="10--25"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>