Although Kathleen Norris’s best-selling Dakota: A Spiritual Geography has brought her to the attention of many thousands of readers, she is first and last a poet. Like Robert Frost, another poet identified with a particular landscape, she can reveal the miraculous in the ordinary, and she writes with clarity, humor, and deep sympathy for her subjects.
This volume of poetry presents a ""spiritual geography"". Its places are varied including the grasslands, the small towns of the western Dakotas, the industrial landscape of northern New Jersey and the quiet spaces of a Benedictine monastery.
