Poetry. "The city is falling. / You who know shadow, blood and spirit / hang at its edge in silence, / tail fur bloody, shrill chatter buried, / grim pouch on a tree by the river. / Still, you will write. / Ink is abundant / and will not stop flowing"--from City Poem for Hanuman, the Monkey Scribe. Anya Achtenberg is an award-winning fiction writer as well as poet, who has taught creative writing widely, including at New York University, Hamline University, and the University of New Mexico among others. Prior to publication, various versions of THE STONE OF LANGUAGE won recognition as a...

"Blue Earth" is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its secrets. Carver Heinz loses both farm and family in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed with Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a tornado in an encounter he insists they keep silent. Her close friendship with a Dakota Indian boy fuels Carver's rage and unleashes a series of events that reveal the haunting power of each character's past and of their shared histories, especially the 1862 Dakota Conflict and public hanging of 38 Dakota--the largest mass execution in U.S....

"Blue Earth" is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its secrets. Carver Heinz loses both farm and family in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed with Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a tornado in an encounter he insists they keep silent. Her close friendship with a Dakota Indian boy fuels Carver's rage and unleashes a series of events that reveal the haunting power of each character's past and of their shared histories, especially the 1862 Dakota Conflict and public hanging of 38 Dakota--the largest mass execution in U.S....