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Poetry. Native American Studies. From the first poem in SOUTHWEST BY MIDWEST, 'Prolog: The Pot Taking Shape to the last, 'Epilog: At the Center of the Circle, ' former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf weaves a delicate, prescient tale of New Mexican and Arizonian indigenous aesthetics and poetry, its artists and the universe in clear, gentle and tactile language. Krapf shows not only a literary prowess but a consideration for cultural nuances not his own. With the last lines of his last poem, 'You too make love and music / that can save us all. You too / live and breathe at the center, ' he connects us back to the beginning: to language and ourselves. A beautiful book.--Shonda Buchanan.