Poetry in service to humanity. --BARRY LOPEZ Pattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of America s finest contemporary poets. Her writing--with its firm roots in science and the natural world--has been compared to Emerson s and Whitman s. She has written about motherhood art science spirituality and the tension between humanity and wildness. Firekeeper presents the best work from Rogers s career in one powerfully compact book including such favorite poems as Suppose Your Father Was a Redbird The Hummingbird: A Seduction Animals and People: The Human Heart in Conflict with Itself and Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew. This edition reflects the poet s own selection from her work and was expanded to include poems from the five books published between the first release of Firekeeper in 1994 and this edition s publication in 2006. For both those well-acquainted with Rogers s work and those only just encountering this poet for the first time this is the book to have.