Sorting the Smoke New & Selected Poems

Stoller (anthropology, West Chester U.) was a sorcerer's apprentice during four field trips to Songhay. He reports the power of witchcraft and the substance of life in this middle Niger River region. No scholarly apparatus. Originally published in 1987. Eighteen of the new meet the best of the rest (from six previous collections) in this cowinner (along with Terese Svoboda's Laughing Africa) of the 1989 Iowa Poetry Prize. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR