At once sweeping, visceral, earthy, gritty, ethereal, and primordial, Karla Linn Merrifield's Lithic Scatter and Other Poems unfolds a kaleidoscopic odyssey of the American West at its all-natural wildest. Here is the frontier seen - and felt - through the eyes of a visionary poet who explores the region's vast terrains as anthropologist and archeologist, historian and ethnographer, shaman and seeker-after-self. From the whimsical to the emotionally searing, these 59 poems evoke vast landscapes rich in myth and mysticism, loss and hope. Merrifield captures the West's majesty and brings it...