Poems Across the Big Sky: An Anthology of Montana Poets

Whether in Montana classrooms or in solitude, the beauty, complexity, and struggle of lives in Montana have inspired the remarkable variety of voices which comprise Poems Across the Big Sky. The poets included are female as well as male, Native American as well as non-Native, gay as well as straight, urban as well as rural. Some of them write in the Native languages of Montana, and also in English. Together they provide a portrait of Montana which challenges and prods us to a new, more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of the bittersweet essence of contemporary life in Montana Reservations, cities, small towns, isolated ranches, cabins, prairies, and mountains. --Margaret C. Kingsland (from the Introduction)