Billboard In The Clouds

In this remarkable debut book of poems, winner of the Native Writers First Book Award, Suzanne S. Rancourt, presents her experience as a mixed-raced person seeking understanding through relationship with the natural world and dominant culture. Her family portraits are reminiscent of E. A. Robinson; her sensuous nature poems are imbued with love of earth as a "blessing."Dancemy legs are explosionsexpressionsof lustful windslipping in my true intention like a snow drifton the insideside of a door i poundyour chesthas become my wailing wallwith words and implicationsBorn and raised in West Central Maine, Suzanne Rancourt is Abenaki, Bear Clan. She is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army. Ms. Rancourt holds a master of fine arts in poetry from Vermont College and a master of science degree in educational psychology from SUNY, Albany, NY. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including "The Albany Review," "Callaloo" and "Cimarron Review."