A Wyoming Poet, a Montana Poet - Two women who understand the land and the opportunities it offers. Life in the West can be a challenge but the rewards - visual, visceral and spiritual - are hard to describe. B.J. Buckley and Dawn Senior-Trask have woven words into a verbal tapestry that gives the reader a deeply complete and vibrantly luminous measure of what it is to immerse oneself in this life. Each of these poets reminds us, through her precise and thoughtful work, of the importance of the western place and of its inherent fragility. The empty sky, the open space and the strong individuals, human or animal, fill their spare and beautiful poems. -Jane Elkington Wohl, Beasts in Snow These Poets share a keen observation of their respective landscapes-a sort of patient accumulation of deep experience that used to be the purview of shamans, as close to a natural sacrament as you could hope for. Taste and your eyes are opened.-Gary David, Tierra Zia and A Log of DeadwoodIt's been many years since I've seen the love of nature and the nature of love so lovingly interwined in a music of such natural luminosity. -Jerry McGuire, Director, Creative Writing, University of South Western Louisiana/LafayetteB.J. Buckley has driven more miles across and around the west than any poet alive, and she has the keen eye and intellect to mesh her experience and her emotional vision. Her love of the natural world and its belongings is finely honed and wise, and her poems live in same world they come from. The words are to believe, and to believe in. -Kent Nelson, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still