Winner of a 2002 American Book Award Winner of the 2002 Colorado Book Award in Poetry

"The natural voice at work in the poetry sings of one human life as if it were our own. I loved listening."--Rita Kiefer, author of Nesting Doll

"This just may be one of the best books of poetry I have ever read. . . . This is the kind of writing that give poetry a good name."--Mike Nobles, Tulsa World

"Abeyta's poetry amazingly captures this struggle with poems that are simultaneously tortured and thankful, celebratory and melancholy,...

Through epistolary essays and poems, American Book Award- and Colorado Book Award-winning author and poet Aaron A. Abeyta captures the soul of the cultural and geographical crossroads of the driest quadrant in the nation, the Colorado headwaters, source to all the rivers in the southwestern and mid-western United States. Originating from and expanding on the themes of twenty-five years of Headwaters conferences at Western State Colorado University, these essays and poems embrace the region s past while also exploring the struggles of a present that seeks a sustainable future for the...