Replete with breathtaking landscapes, teeming with wildlife and charged with emotional power, IN CASE OF BEARS marks the publishing debut of award-winning poet Peggy C. Hall. Inspired by her travels in the American West, it straps the reader to the passenger seat of a cross-country trek, over Rockies, Bitterroots, Badlands, Blackfoot Hills and the Lewis & Clark trail with Hall's poetic wagon train west.

Hall regales us with poetic forms from around the world, including many complex Irish and Welsh forms of her ancestry, and oversees the return of hero Gus Greenbear to the written page, complete with entourage and new adventures. With an evocative voice, Hall transforms her transcontinental travels, roadside revelations, encounters with wild animals and even wilder folk into poignant poetic gemstones, quick on the pulse of a Native America seldom seen today.

ISBN 0966-5310-78
Softcover. January 2006. $15.00
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